Justice Sanjiv Khanna will turn out to be the 51st Chief Justice of India.
New Delhi:
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Chandrachud has formally proposed Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the second-most senior decide of the Supreme Court docket, as his successor.
In a communication to the Union authorities, Chief Justice Chandrachud said that since he’s demitting workplace on November 10, Justice Khanna could be his successor.
Upon approval by the federal government, Justice Khanna will turn out to be the 51st Chief Justice of India. He’s set to serve a tenure of six months, concluding on Might 13, 2025, earlier than his retirement.
The letter is written as per conference the place the retiring Chief Justice of India nominates the second-most senior decide a successor. The Union authorities then approves the advice.
Justice Chandrachud took over because the CJI on November 9, 2022. Judges of the Supreme Court docket retire by the age of 65.
Born on Might 14, 1960, Justice Khanna enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983 and initially practised on the district courts on the Tis Hazari complicated, and later within the Excessive Court docket of Delhi and tribunals.
He was elevated as a further Decide of the Delhi Excessive Court docket in 2005 and was made a everlasting decide in 2006.
Justice Khanna was elevated as a Decide of the Supreme Court docket on January 18, 2019.
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, born November 11, 1959, is an Indian jurist, who’s the fiftieth and present chief justice of India serving since November 2022.
He was appointed a Decide of the Supreme Court docket of India in Might 2016 and in addition beforehand served because the chief justice of the Allahabad Excessive Court docket from 2013 to 2016 and as a decide of the Bombay Excessive Court docket from 2000 to 2013.
CJI Chandrachud was educated at Delhi College and Harvard College and has practised as a lawyer for Sullivan& Cromwell and within the Bombay Excessive Court docket.
He has been a part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such because the electoral bond scheme verdict, the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, the Sabarimala case, the same-sex marriage case and on revocation of the particular standing of Jammu and Kashmir.
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