Justice Arup Kumar Goswami, Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court, has been appointed as Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. Chief Justice of AP High Court J.K Maheswari has been appointed as Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court.
Born in1961, Justice Goswami graduated from Cotton College in 1981. After obtaining LL.B degree from Government Law College, Guwahati in 1985, he enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura and Mizoram. He was designated as a senior advocate in 2004 and was the standing counsel of Gauhati High Court in 2004.
Justice Goswami was elevated as Judge of the High Court in 2011 and was appointed as the Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court in 2019.