The Delhi High Court has released a new judicial roster effective September 8, 2025, reshuffling benches for PILs, tax cases, criminal appeals, and commercial disputes. The order, signed by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya, ensures faster and streamlined case allocation.
New Delhi: Today, on September 4, the Delhi High Court has issued a new judicial roster that will come into effect from September 8, 2025. The order was signed and released by Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya on September 4, 2025.
The roster specifies how different categories of cases will be allocated among Division Benches, Single Benches, the Original Side, the Commercial Division, and the IP Division, with the objective of ensuring efficient case management and smooth functioning of the court.
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Under the new arrangement, Division Bench I, headed by the Chief Justice along with Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, will hear public interest litigations, suo motu writ petitions, and constitutional challenges to laws and notifications, except for tax-related cases between 2021 and 2025.
Division Bench II, comprising Justice V. Kameswar Rao and Justice Vinod Kumar, will handle taxation matters including Income Tax, Wealth Tax, and Gift Tax disputes.
Other benches have been allocated cases relating to criminal appeals, service law disputes, land acquisition issues, family law appeals, indirect taxation, intellectual property rights, company matters, and municipal cases.
The roster includes several clarifications on case management. Fresh public interest litigations will be listed before the Chief Justice’s bench. Urgent matters will be mentioned before Division Bench I, while urgent mentioning in pending cases will be before the concerned roster bench.
Applications seeking review, recall, correction, clarification, or modification of orders will be listed before the bench that originally passed them. Matters that are not part-heard but pending before other benches will be transferred to the benches assigned under the new roster.
All suo motu petitions and PILs, even if part-heard, will be listed before Division Bench I. Regular and final hearing matters will be listed in chronological order to prioritize disposal of older cases, and the Chief Justice retains discretion to assign specially directed matters to any bench or judge.
The roster also establishes eight Division Benches to function as the Commercial Appellate Division, including DB-I through DB-IX. Matters for the Commercial Appellate Division will be distributed by the Chief Justice.
In addition, six judges have been designated to hear cases in the Commercial Division: Justice Jyoti Singh, Justice Jasmeet Singh, Justice Amit Bansal, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, and Justice Tejas Karia.
Justices Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora and Tejas Karia have also been nominated to the IP Division, with matters to be allocated by the Judge-in-Charge of the Original Side.
Specific provisions have been made for arbitration and execution cases. Fresh arbitration matters under the Arbitration Act of 1940 and the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996 will be distributed among the A, B, F, and G courts. Final matters pending up to the year 2007 in the B court will be transferred to the G court.
Where a Section 34 petition is pending regarding an arbitral award, the related execution petition will be heard by the same court.
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If an execution petition was filed before a Section 34 petition, it will be transferred to the court handling the Section 34 matter once it is listed.
For criminal jurisdiction, the Judge-in-Charge will assign matters that cannot be placed before roster benches or need to be directed to other criminal benches. Urgent criminal matters, however, will be mentioned only before Division Bench I.
Fresh bail applications, criminal leave petitions, criminal appeals, criminal writ petitions, criminal revision petitions, and criminal miscellaneous main cases will be distributed equally among Justices Sanjeev Narula, Arun Monga, Neena Bansal Krishna, Swarana Kanta Sharma, Amit Mahajan, Ravinder Dudeja, and Ajay Digpaul.
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Pending criminal cases from 2025 under Justice Girish Kathpalia will be transferred to different benches: writ petitions to Justice Sanjeev Narula, bail matters to Justice Neena Bansal Krishna, criminal leave and revision petitions to Justice Amit Mahajan, and criminal appeals and miscellaneous cases to Justice Ajay Digpaul.
In compliance with directions from the Supreme Court in a suo motu writ petition, the Delhi High Court has also constituted two dedicated benches for hearing old criminal appeals.
Cases involving convicts who have completed or are close to completing a substantial portion of their sentence will be taken up on priority to ensure expeditious disposal.
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