Justice Khanna will function the 51st CJI from November 10 for a interval of six months
Delhi:
Supreme Courtroom choose Justice Sanjeev Khanna’s title has been really useful by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud as his successor. He’ll take over because the 51st CJI on November 10 and serve for six months.
This is all you could learn about him:
Born in a household of authorized luminaries on Might 14, 1960, he’s the son of Delhi Excessive Courtroom choose Justice Devraj Khanna and nephew of senior Supreme Courtroom choose Justice Hansraj Khanna. He accomplished his education from Fashionable Faculty, Barakhamba Street in Delhi and went on to finish his commencement from the College of Delhi in 1980. He then went on to pursue his regulation diploma from DU’s Campus Regulation Middle.
Justice Hansraj Khanna had delivered the one dissenting judgment within the “Habeas Corpus case” of ADM, Jabalpur vs Shivkant Shukla in 1976. Following this, the then Indira Gandhi authorities bypassed the seniority of 4 judges together with the Justice Hansraj Khanna’s and appointed Justice MH Beg because the Chief Justice of the nation in January 1977.
Justice Sanjeev Khanna was promoted to the Supreme Courtroom instantly from his guardian courtroom – the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. Since 1997, solely six judges have been promoted from their guardian Excessive Courtroom and appointed as judges within the Supreme Courtroom. They embrace Justice Syed Abdul Nazeer, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta, Justice GP Mathur, Justice Ruma Pal and Justice SS Qadri.
Enrolled as an advocate with the Delhi Bar Council in 1983, Sanjeev Khanna initially practised within the District Courtroom at Delhi’s Tis Hazari Advanced and later within the Delhi Excessive Courtroom and tribunals in numerous fields, like constitutional regulation, direct taxation, arbitration.
He served a protracted tenure as Senior Standing Counsel for the Earnings Tax Division together with follow in areas comparable to Industrial Regulation, Firm Regulation, Land Regulation, Environmental Regulation and Medical Negligence. In 2004, he was appointed as Standing Counsel for the Authorities of Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi.
He served as an Further Public Prosecutor and Amicus Curiae in lots of legal instances in Delhi Excessive Courtroom. In 2005, Justice Sanjeev Khanna was promoted as Further Decide of Delhi Excessive Courtroom, and was appointed a everlasting choose in 2006.
Whereas being a choose of Delhi Excessive Courtroom, he held the put up of Chairman/Decide-in-Cost of Delhi Judicial Academy, Delhi Worldwide Arbitration Centre and District Courtroom Arbitration Centre.
Justice Sanjeev Khanna was promoted as a choose of the Supreme Courtroom of India on January 18, 2019. Justice Sanjeev Khanna, after taking oath as a choose within the Supreme Courtroom, began his first day from the identical courtroom room from the place his uncle Justice Hansraj Khanna had resigned and retired. The latter’s picture can be hung within the courtroom.
As per the rule of seniority, Justice Khanna will function the 51st CJI from November 10 onwards for a interval of six months. He’ll function CJI until Might 13, 2025, a day earlier than his sixty fifth birthday.
Throughout his tenure within the Supreme Courtroom, Justice Sanjeev Khanna was part of the Structure Bench constituted for a lot of essential instances, together with the Electoral Bond Scheme, the repeal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s bail.
He held the put up of Chairman of Supreme Courtroom Authorized Companies Committee from June 17, 2023 to December 25, 2023. He’s at the moment the Govt Chairman of Nationwide Authorized Companies Authority and Member of Governing Council of Nationwide Judicial Academy, Bhopal.
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