Chief Justice of India (CJI) Chandrachud has formally proposed Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the second-most senior choose of the Supreme Courtroom, as his successor. In a communication to the Union authorities, Chief Justice Chandrachud acknowledged that since he’s demitting workplace on November 10, Justice Khanna could be his successor.
Upon approval by the federal government, Justice Khanna will change into the 51st Chief Justice of India. He’s set to serve a tenure of six months, concluding on Could 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 choose a successor. The Union authorities then approves the advice.
Justice Chandrachud took over because the CJI on November 9, 2022. Judges of the Supreme Courtroom retire by the age of 65. Born on Could 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 advanced, and later within the Excessive Courtroom of Delhi and tribunals.
He was elevated as an extra Choose of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in 2005 and was made a everlasting choose in 2006. Justice Khanna was elevated as a Choose of the Supreme Courtroom on January 18, 2019.
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, born November 11, 1959, is an Indian jurist, who’s the 50th and present chief justice of India serving since November 2022. He was appointed a Choose of the Supreme Courtroom of India in Could 2016 and likewise beforehand served because the chief justice of the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom from 2013 to 2016 and as a choose of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom 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 Courtroom.
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.
