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The president of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee meeting with Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court, at Rashtrapati Bhavan The president of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of India The chief justice of ...
The Constitution of India grants power to the president of India to appoint, as recommended by the outgoing chief justice in consultation with other judges, (as envisaged in Article 124 (2) of the Constitution) [5] the next chief justice, who will serve until they reach the age of 65 or are removed by the constitutional process of impeachment.
The Indian judiciary consists of the Supreme Court of India, which is the highest court in the country and the constituent courts. The Supreme Court serves as the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India and consists of 33 judges headed by the Chief Justice of India. [1]
Sanjiv Khanna, the incumbent chief justice of India, since 11 November 2024 The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In ...
Sanjiv Khanna (born 14 May 1960) is an Indian jurist currently serving as the 51st Chief Justice of India since 11 November 2024. [1] He is the ex officio Patron-in-Chief of the National Legal Services Authority and the de facto Chancellor of the National Law School of India University. [2] He has also served as a judge at the Delhi High Court.
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai (born 24 November 1960) is an Indian jurist and a judge of the Supreme Court of India. [1] He is a former judge of the Bombay High Court and currently serves as the chancellor of the Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur. [2] [3] [4] Also, he is the ex officio executive chairman of National Legal Services ...
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 19 December 1937) is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of the Patna High Court, Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd [3] Chief Justice of India.
India is the only country where a member of the minority Parsi community with a population of 1,67,000, like myself, can aspire to attain the post of the Chief Justice of India. These things do not happen in our neighbouring countries." Chief Justice Kapadia speaking at the Independence Day celebrations in the Supreme Court. [17] [18]