Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh: Patna, Ranchi, Agartala, Hyderabad, and now the Supreme Court

A decade at the Patna Bar, 11 years on the Jharkhand bench and Chief Justiceships at Tripura and Telangana preceded Justice Singh's oath at the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026.

Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh practised at two High Courts and sat on three before his elevation. He took oath as a judge of the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026, arriving from the High Court for the State of Telangana, where he had been Chief Justice since July 2025.

Enrolment and practice

Born on 7 July 1965, Justice Singh took a BA (Honours) and an LLB from the University of Delhi. He enrolled as an advocate in 1990 and practised at the Patna High Court from 1990 to 2000. After the Jharkhand High Court was constituted, he practised there from 2001 until his elevation to its bench. SCC Online records that his maternal great-grandfather, Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha, was the sixth Chief Justice of India, and that his maternal uncles, Justice Bisheshwar Prasad Singh and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh, both sat on the Supreme Court.

Jharkhand High Court

He was appointed an Additional Judge of the Jharkhand High Court on 24 January 2012 and confirmed as a permanent judge on 16 January 2014. He held the office of Executive Chairman of the Jharkhand State Legal Services Authority, and was Acting Chief Justice of the High Court from 20 December 2022 to 19 February 2023. In 2021 he granted bail to Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Dumka treasury fodder scam case after he had served half his sentence (ThePrint).

Tripura and Telangana

Justice Singh took oath as Chief Justice of the High Court of Tripura on 17 April 2023, and, on transfer, as Chief Justice of the High Court for the State of Telangana on 19 July 2025. In November 2025 his bench rejected a challenge to the provision of the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act disqualifying local-body candidates with more than two children, holding that it did not violate Articles 14 and 19. In April 2026 it upheld the government's power to constitute the Justice P.C. Ghose Commission on the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project, while setting aside the commission's adverse findings against K. Chandrashekar Rao and three others for breach of natural justice. On 18 September 2026 it set aside the Speaker's rejection of disqualification petitions and declared the Khairatabad MLA, Danam Nagender, disqualified under the Tenth Schedule for contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha election while holding a Bharat Rashtra Samithi seat (ThePrint).

Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, who was junior to Justice Singh at the Jharkhand High Court, was elevated to the Supreme Court earlier and therefore ranks above him in seniority there (LiveLaw). Justice Singh is due to retire on 6 July 2030.