High Court Registry

All Officers of the High Court Work under the supervision of Hon’ble the Chief Justice and attend the work assigned to them by Hon’ble the Chief Justice. The Principal Officers of the High Court are as under: -

Registrar General (Janak Raj Kotwal) – Registrar General is a Senior Judicial Officer of District & Sessions Judge rank. He deals with the matters pertaining to the Gazetted Officers of District Judiciary and High Court. He also deals with the matters pertaining to High Court staff. He is overall incharge of the High Court Registry. He also deals with all the matters pertaining to Hon’ble Judges of the High Court.

Registrar Vigilance (Kartar Singh) – Registrar Vigilance is also of District and Sessions Judge rank. He deals with all the complaints received in the High Court against the High Court Staff as well as District Judiciary. He also deals with statistics section of the registry.

Principal Secretary to Hon’ble the Chief Justice (Abdul Wahid) – Principal Secretary is also of a District and Sessions rank. He attends matters pertaining to employees of Subordinate Judiciary such as transfers, promotions, leave etc. Also being ex-officio Secretary of Public Interest Litigation Cell. He also attends all other matters assigned by the Lord Chief Justice.

Registrar Judicial (Sanjeev Gupta, Jammu & Abdul Rashid Bhat-I, Srinagar) – There are two Registrars Judicial, one at Jammu and one at Srinagar Wing of the High Court. Registrar Judicial is also of District and Sessions Judge rank and looks after day to day administration of his wing besides listing of cases before the Court. He also exercise powers on the Judicial side as provided under the High Court Rules.

Registrar Rules (Sujahat Ali Khan) – There is one post of Registrar Rules in the High Court and he is Judicial Officer of the rank of District and Sessions Judge. He deals with the framing of various rules assigned by Lord Chief Justice. He is also Central Project Coordinator (CPC) of e-Court.

Joint Registrar Judicial ( Khalil Ahmed Choudhary, Jammu & Mehraj-ud-Din Sofi, Srinagar ) – Joint Registrar Judicial is a Judicial Officer of the rank of Sub-Judge. There are two Joint Registrars (Judicial), one at Jammu and one at Srinagar Wing. They assist Registrar Judicial in discharging their function.

Joint Registrar (Durga Dass, Chuni Lal, K. K. Watel, Nisar Ahmad Khan and Mushtaq Ahmad  )  – There are five Joint Registrars working in the High Court, wherein one is working in Main Wing, Two in Jammu Wing and two are working in Srinagar wing of the High Court.
 

MAIN WING

1.  Shri Janak Raj Kotwal

Registrar General

2.  Shri Abdul Wahid

Principal Secretary to Hon’ble the Chief Justice

3.  Shri Kartar Singh

Registrar Vigilance

4.  Shri Raja Sujhat Ali Khan

Registrar Rules

5.  Shri K. K. Wattal

Joint Registrar

6.  Shri Bhagat Ram

Chief Accounts Officer

JAMMU WING

1.  Shri Sanjeev Gupta

Registrar Judicial

2.  Shri Khalil Ahmed Choudhary

Joint Registrar (Judicial)

3.  Shri Chuni Lal

Joint Registrar

4.  Shri Durga Dass

Joint Registrar

5.  Shri Bua Ditta

Deputy Registrar (Administration)

6.  Smt. Nisha Saraf

Deputy Registrar Computers

7.  Shri. Sanjay Kumar Gupta

District Judge ( Leave Reserve )

8.  Shri. Sudhir Kumar

Sub Judge ( Leave Reserve )

9. Shri. Rupali Ratta

Sub Judge ( Leave Reserve )

Sub Judge (Attached to Jammu Wing)

Munsiff (Leave Reserve) Attached with Director, J&K State Judicial Academy

SRINAGAR WING

1.  Sh. Abdul Rashid Bhat-I

Registrar Judicial

2.  Shri Mehraj-ud-Din Sofi

Joint Registrar (Judicial)

3.  Shri Nisar Ahmad Khan

Joint Registrar

4.  Shri Mushtaq  Ahmad

Joint Registrar