It was planned by British specialist Col. J. A. Fuller in Gothic restoration in the early English style. An aggregate of Rs. 16,44,528.00 was spent on the building. For the most part lime mortar was utilized for development of dividers, and so forth

Lawfully Bombay in 1661, turned into a British ownership. The island of Mumbai and town constituting a section, was gotten by the British as a piece of the settlement of the Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza, sister of Alphonso VI, the then Portuguese Monarch, when she wedded King Charles II . Bombay at that point was minimal in excess of a little angling town.

The 'Indian High Court Act' of 1861, vested in Her Majesty the Queen of England to issue letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom to erect and build up High Courts of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. The Indian High Courts Act, 1861 did not without anyone else's input make and build up the High Courts in India. The critical point of the Act was to impact a combination of the Supreme Courts and the Sudder Adalats in the three Presidencies and this was to be fulfilled by issuing Letter Patent. The Charter of High Court of Bombay was issued on June 26, 1862.

The Court building is an engineering wonder in straightforwardness. There are two staircases for the judges. The Goddess of Justice (genuine image of equity), is on the bastion on the western front of the High Court building. With her eyes blindfolded, she is holding the Sword of Justice in one hand and the Scales carefully even in the other. Some intriguing engineering highlights of this recorded court building is the show of heads of wolves and foxes in odd niches and corners. However another sculptural component on the first and second floor that will stand out enough to be noticed is the adjustment of Aesop's tale of the legal monkey and the two quarrelsome felines with one eye blindfolded and holding unevenly the Scales of equity. It is trusted this element was the mind offspring of a parse sub-contractual worker who was bamboozled by the British temporary worker. At the point when the subcontractor went to court for equity, the court decision conflicted with him. Disturbed and frustrated, the sub contractual worker vented out his disdain in a sculptural frame.

The court building is 562 feet (171 m) long and 187 feet (57 m) wide. Two octagonal towers are toward the west of focal pinnacle. On this building are the statues of Justice and Mercy . Aside from Bombay Bench, it additionally has seats at Panaji, Nagpur and Aurangabad. It can likewise hear the interests and survey the choices of the lower courts over the State of Goa, Maharashtra, Union domains of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. In 1995, the name Bombay was changed to Mumbai; be that as it may, being a foundation it stayed as the Bombay High Court. Equity M. C. Chagla was the primary Indian changeless Chief Justice of Bombay High Court after freedom (1948 - 1958). In the frontier days the Letter Patent of the Bombay High Court approved 15 Judges, however it began with just 7. It is weird, for around 60 or more years from that point, the High Court figured out how to work with only 7. The high court building is justified regardless of a visit and it won't disillusion you.