Justice Sanjiv Khanna To Take Oath Immediately As 51st Chief Justice Of India

1. President Droupadi Murmu will administer the oath of workplace to Justice Sanjiv Khanna at 10am.

2. Justice Khanna will serve a six-month tenure because the Chief Justice of India and is anticipated to retire on Might 13, 2025.

3. Justice Khanna, 64, is the son of former Delhi Excessive Courtroom choose Justice Dev Raj Khanna and the nephew of outstanding former Supreme Courtroom choose H R Khanna.

4. He began his authorized profession in 1983 as an advocate with the Delhi Bar Council. He was elevated to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in 2005 and to the Supreme Courtroom in 2019.

5. He has expertise in a variety of authorized fields, together with constitutional legislation, taxation, arbitration, business legislation, and environmental legislation.

6. He additionally labored as senior standing counsel for the Revenue Tax Division, representing the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi.

7. Justice Khanna has been a part of a number of landmark judgments — together with upholding the sanctity of Digital Voting Machines (EVMs), and the scrapping of Article 370 that gave Jammu and Kashmir its particular standing.

8. A bench he led additionally declared the electoral bonds scheme unconstitutional, underscoring the necessity for transparency in political funding.

9. He was additionally a part of the bench that granted interim bail to then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal forward of the Lok Sabha election, enabling him to marketing campaign for the May0June Lok Sabha election this yr.

10. Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, in the meantime, grew to become emotional on his final working day. Reflecting on his tenure, he stated, “There isn’t any higher feeling than with the ability to serve these in want.”

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