History

Judicial History of Anuppur District

Initially ANuppur was under territorial juridiction of Shahdol district. First of all here court of Civil Judge Class-II started as a link court which was started on 18 march 1987. It was inaugurated by Finance, Law and legislative minister Shri Ram kishore shukla and Shri R.K.Sharma district & Session Judge Shahdol. This link court was for 7 days only in a month. Shri S.P.Shukla was the presiding officer of link court who was linked with Shahdol district court. Shri K.G. Sureka was the second presiding officer, who was linked this court from Rajendgram tehsil court.

At present Anuppur is a District Court and Rajendragram is a tehsil court of this District court.Before becoming as a Regular court here worked Shri R.K.Shrivastava, Shri Ravi kumar Nayak, Shri A.L. Joshi, SHri L.R.Thakur, SHri U.C.Mishra, Shri Jitendra Narayan Singh and Shri Y.K.Guru as a presiding office from Rajendgram tehsil courtuntil Novemeber 2005 consecutively.

There was no seprate building of link court in ANuppur. Link court was functioning in the buildingof Muncipal Council Anuppur which provided only one hall to the court and which was divided into two parts in which in one part court was sitting and another pard was using as Nazarat.

In November , 2005 Anuppur Court of civil Judge was started as a Regular court and shri Jitendra Narayan Singh was posted as a first presiding officer of the regular court, who is posted here as a Chief Judicial Magistrate.

The District Came into Existence on 15 august 2003 by re-organizing shahdol district but this District was recognised as Civil District in year 2009.