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 (Shri Jawad Ahmad (Officiating))- Registrar General is a Senior Judicial Officer of District & Sessions Judge rank. He deals with the matters pertaining to the Gazetted Officers of District Subordinate 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

Principal Secretary to Hon’ble the Chief Justice (Shri Jawad Ahmad)- 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 is ex-officio Secretary of Public Interest Litigation Cell. He also attends all other matters assigned by the Lord Chief Justice.

Registrar Vigilance (Shri Shahzad Azeem (Officiating) )- 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.

Registrar Inspection with additional charge of Registrar (Computers) (Shri Shahzad Azeem)- Registrar Inspection is of District and Sessions Judge rank.

Registrar Rules ( Ms. Massarat Roohi )- Registrar Rules is of District and Sessions Judge rank.The officer is also Coordinator,Mediation and Conciliation Committee for Jammu province. The officer besides acting as Coordinator for Mediation programmes is also dealing with existing Rules and amendments thereto.

Registrars Judicial (Ms. Sonia Gupta, Jammu & Ms. Masarat Shaheen, Srinagar )- There are two Registrars Judicial, one at Jammu and one at Srinagar Wing of the High Court. They are also of District and Sessions Judge rank and looks after day to day administration of their wings besides listing of cases before the Court. They also exercise powers on the Judicial side as provided under the High Court Rules.

Central Project Coordinator ( Shri Shabir Ahmad Malik )- Central Project Coordinator (CPC) has been entrusted Job of Management of Computerisation in Courts of the State.

Joint Registrars Judicial (Shri Arvind Sharma, Jammu & Shri Mehraj-ud-din Sofi, Srinagar )- There are two Joint Registrars (Judicial), one at Jammu Wing and one at Srinagar Wing. They are Judicial Officers of the rank of Sub-Judge. They are Incharge of Protocol of High Court of J&K, Jammu Wing and Srinagar Wing respectively. They also assist Registrars Judicial in discharging of their official function in their respective wings.

Munsiff (Shri Umesh Sharma, LRP, High Court Wing, Srinagar ) - The services of Shri Umesh Sharma is utilized for assisting CPC, e-courts High Court of J&K.

Joint Registrars (Admn.) - There are presently five Joint Registrars (Admn.), one in Jammu Wing, two each in Main Wing and Srinagar wing. They are Sh.Durga Dass Sharma, Sh.Mohammad Yasin Beig, Sh.Azad Ahmad Wani, Sh.Ghulam Mohammad Parray.

Chief Accounts Officer (Shri Suresh Kumar Koul)