This court complex has been established in the year 1961 and was functioning as Munsiff Court dealing with the cases of Civil and Criminal and registration work in the jurisdiction of District Pulwama. After that this court complex was upgraded to District & Sessions Court in the year 1980 and started the functioning of Civil, Criminal and MACT cases.
It was in 2011 that Chief justice F.M Kalifula and Justice virendar Singh inaugurated Legal Aid Clinic at Pulwama in a grand and largely attended function organized by Principal District & Sessions Judge, Pulwama Mr. Mohammad Yousuf Wani.
