Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Thursday formally nominated Justice Sanjiv Khanna as the subsequent CJI. The Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice Chandrachud has set in movement the method of appointment of his successor, forward of his retirement. CJI Chandrachud had on Wednesday written a letter of advice to the Union Legislation Ministry naming Justice Khanna as his successor. This fashion, Justice Khanna will turn into the 51st CJI on November 11. Justice Khanna is the nephew of former apex court docket decide Justice H R Khanna, who was a part of the landmark verdict propounding the fundamental construction doctrine within the Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.
Who Is Justice Sanjiv Khanna?
Sanjiv Khanna was elevated as a decide of the Supreme Courtroom on January 18, 2019. He’ll retire on Could 13, 2025, making it a tenure of little over six months. Based on the Supreme Courtroom of India’s web site, Justice Khanna was born on 14th Could, 1960. He studied legislation on the Campus Legislation Centre of Delhi College.
He enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983, starting his authorized apply on the District Courts within the Tis Hazari advanced, Delhi. He later expanded his apply to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom and numerous tribunals, dealing with circumstances throughout numerous fields akin to constitutional legislation, direct taxation, arbitration, business legislation, firm legislation, land legislation, environmental legislation, and medical negligence.
In 2004, he was appointed Standing Counsel (Civil) for the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi. The next 12 months, he was elevated to the Delhi Excessive Courtroom as an extra decide and have become a everlasting decide in 2006. Throughout his tenure on the Delhi Excessive Courtroom, he served as Chairman/Choose-in-Cost of the Delhi Judicial Academy, the Delhi Worldwide Arbitration Centre, and the District Courtroom Mediation Centres.
He was elevated to the Supreme Courtroom of India on January 18, 2019, and held the place of Chairman of the Supreme Courtroom Authorized Companies Committee from June 17, 2023, to December 25, 2023.
Key Judgements By Justice Khanna
With regards to main judgements delivered by Justice Khanna, the record goes lengthy. A few of the notable judgments of Justice Khanna within the Supreme Courtroom embody upholding using Digital Voting Machines in elections, saying the units have been safe and eliminating sales space capturing and bogus voting. 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 choice abrogating Article 370 of the Structure which granted a particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Justice Khanna, who’s the senior-most decide after the outgoing CJI, and the manager chairman of the Nationwide Authorized Service Authority (NALSA), had granted interim bail to the then Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused within the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off circumstances, for campaigning in Lok Sabha elections. (With company inputs)
