Staff Reporter
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High Court of Chhattisgarh has published a new roster of work with effect from March 17, 2026. The four Division Benches have been constituted.
The Division Bench-I comprising of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal will hear all writ matters of division bench (except against the order of Tribunal constituted under articles 323-A& 323-B of the Constitution of India and matter relates to Ultra Vires upto the year 2022), Public Interest Litigation Petitions, writ appeals, habeas corpus petitions, criminal reference (reference in capital cases), criminal appeal of the year 2020 (Motion Hearing Matters), criminal appeal from the year 2021 onwards, writ petition (Cr.), contempt petition (criminal), application for leave to appeal U/s 378 Cr.P.C/application for leave to appeal U/s. 419 BNSS (Motion Hearing Matters), applications under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure/applications under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (for quashing of FIR).
The Division Bench-II comprising of Justice Sanjay K Agrawal and Justice Sachin Singh Rajput will take up all criminal matters which have not been assigned to any division bench, first appeals relating to matrimonial matters and writ petitions (S) matters relates to ultra Vires up to the year 2022.
The Division Bench-III comprising of Justice Sanjay Agrawal and Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad will hear all civil matters of Division Bench, which have not been assigned to nay Division Bench, Company Appeal, tax cases including writ appeals of tax cases, acquittal appeals upto the year 2015, al writ matters of division bench (against the order of tribunal constituted under Article 323-A & 323-B of the Constitution of India) and ultra vires matters upto the year 2022 except WPS&WPC matters.
The Division Bench-IV comprising of Justice Rajani Dubey and Justice Radhakishan Agrawal will hear commercial appellate division bench cases, application for leave to appear U/s 378 Cr.P.C, acquittal appeals and writ petition (C) matters relates to ultra vires upto the year 2022.
The two special benches have been constituted. The special bench comprising of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha will take up application under sub-section (4) or sub-section (5) or sub-section (6) of section 11 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, petitions under section 482 Cr.P.C, criminal revision, all bail applications, transfer petition (criminal), criminal appeal and specially assigned cases. The special bench comprising of Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal will take up acquittal appeals and leave to appeals from the year 2024 onwards, all nature of writ petitions (WP) upto the year 2006 and other cases.
Single Bench-I comprising of Justice Sanjay K Agrawal, Single Bench-II comprising of Justice Sanjay Agrawal, Single Bench-III comprising of Justice Parth Prateem Sahu, Single Bench-IV comprising of Justice Rajani Dubey, Single Bench-V comprising of Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas, Single Bench-VI comprising of Justice Naresh Kumar Chandravanshi, Single Bench-VII comprising of Justice Sachin Singh Rajput, Single Bench-VIII comprising of Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey, Single Bench-IX comprising of Justice Radhakishan Agrawal, Single Bench-X comprising of Justice Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, Single Bench-XI comprising of Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, Single Bench-XII comprising of Justice Bibhu Datta Guru and Single Bench-XIII comprising of Justice Amitendra Kishore Prasad have been constituted.