- Justice Suresh Kumar Kait was sworn in as the 28th Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- Before his appointment as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court by President Draoupadi Murmu, Justice Suresh Kumar Kait was a judge of the Delhi High Court.
- He replaced the acting Chief Justice, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva..
- Justice Suresh Kumar Kait is the first Dalit to be appointed as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- Justice Kait is a native of Haryana. On September 5, 2008, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court. Later, in 2013, he was appointed as the Permanent Judge.
- He was transferred to the High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in Hyderabad on April 12, 2016, and again to the Delhi High Court by the President in 2018.
- Justice Suresh Kumar Kait is expected to retire on 23 May 2025, when he will be 62.
- The retirement age of a High Court Judge is 62, and that of a Supreme Court Judge is 65.
Madhya Pradesh High Court
- After the creation of the present state of Madhya Pradesh on 1 November 1956 under the State Reorganisation Act 1956, Nagpur High Court was made the High Court of the State.
- A temporary bench of the Nagpur High Court was set up at Indore and Gwalior.
- Later, in 1968, Indore and Gwalior were made the permanent benches of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- After the formation of Chhattisgarh on 1 November 2000, Jabalpur became the permanent seat of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
- The High Court’s division benches are at Gwalior and Indore.
- The total sanctioned strength of the High Court Judges, including the Chief Justice, is 53.
- First Chief Justice: Justice M.Hidayatullah