New Delhi: Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who has been a part of a number of landmark Supreme Court docket judgements comparable to scrapping the electoral bonds scheme and upholding abrogation of Article 370, can be sworn in because the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday. President Droupadi Murmu will administer the oath of workplace at Rashtrapati Bhavan in a ceremony scheduled at 10 am.
Justice Khanna will succeed Justice DY Chandrachud, who retired on Sunday, and his time period will final till Could 13, 2025. The Centre formally notified Justice Khanna’s appointment on October 24 following Chief Justice Chandrachud’s suggestion on October 16. Friday was the final working day of Justice Chandrachud because the CJI and he was given a rousing farewell by judges, attorneys and employees of the apex courtroom and the excessive courts.
Justice Khanna, who served as a Supreme Court docket choose since January 2019, has been a part of a number of landmark judgements comparable to upholding the sanctity of EVMs, scrapping the electoral bonds scheme, upholding the abrogation of Article 370 and the grant of interim bail to former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. Hailing from an illustrious Delhi-based household, Justice Khanna is the son of former Delhi Excessive Court docket choose Justice Dev Raj Khanna and the nephew of distinguished former apex courtroom choose H R Khanna.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who was elevated as a choose of the Supreme Court docket on January 18, 2019, was a third-generation lawyer earlier than being appointed as choose of the excessive courtroom. He’s pushed by the zeal to scale back pendency and velocity up justice supply.
Justice H R Khanna, the uncle of Justice Khanna, hit the headlines by resigning in 1976 after he wrote a dissenting verdict within the notorious ADM Jabalpur case in the course of the Emergency. The bulk verdict of a Structure bench, upholding the abrogation of basic rights in the course of the Emergency, was thought of a “black spot” on the judiciary. Justice H R Khanna declared the transfer unconstitutional and towards the rule of legislation and paid a worth because the then central authorities outdated him and made Justice M H Beg the following CJI.
Justice H R Khanna was a part of the landmark verdict propounding the essential construction doctrine within the Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.
Among the many notable judgments of Justice Sanjiv Khanna within the Supreme Court docket is upholding the usage of digital voting machines in elections, saying the gadgets have been safe and eradicated sales space capturing and bogus voting. A bench headed by Justice Khanna, on April 26, termed the suspicion of manipulation of the EVMs “unfounded” and rejected the demand for reverting to the outdated paper poll system. He was additionally a part of the five-judge bench that declared the electoral bond scheme, meant for funding political events, as unconstitutional.
Justice Khanna was part of the five-judge bench, which upheld the Centre’s 2019 resolution abrogating Article 370 of the Structure which granted a particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was the Justice Khanna-led bench, which for the primary time, granted interim bail to Kejriwal, the then chief minister, until June 1 to marketing campaign within the Lok Sabha elections within the excise coverage rip-off instances. Born on Could 14, 1960, he studied legislation on the Campus Regulation Centre of Delhi College.
Justice Khanna was the chief chairman of the Nationwide Authorized Service Authority (NALSA). He enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983 and initially practised within the District Courts on the TisHazari advanced right here and later, within the Delhi Excessive Court docket. He had a protracted tenure because the senior standing counsel for the Earnings Tax Division. In 2004, he was appointed because the standing counsel (Civil) for the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi. Justice Khanna had additionally argued in numerous felony instances on the Delhi Excessive Court docket as an extra public prosecutor and as an amicus curiae.
