Correct Answer : Justice Sanjiv Khanna
President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday (24th Oct 2024) appointed Justice Sanjiv Khanna as the 51st Chief Justice of India.
Justice Khanna, who is likely to take oath on 11 November 2024, will succeed CJI D Y Chandrachud who is due to retire on November 10, 2024.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court, to be the Chief Justice of India with effect from 11 November 2024,” the government notification said.
Justice Khanna will have a relatively short tenure of just six months — he is due to retire on March 13, 2025.
A graduate of Delhi University’s Campus Law Centre, he enrolled as an advocate in 1983 and primarily practised before the Delhi High Court.
Before his elevation as judge of Delhi High Court in June 2005, he served as Senior Standing Counsel of the Income Tax Department and was also the standing counsel on civil matters for the Delhi government.
Justice Khanna carries an illustrious surname in the legal circles – his father Dev Raj Khanna was a judge of the Delhi High Court and his uncle Hans Raj Khanna was the most senior of the Supreme Court puisne judges who resigned after he was passed over for chief justiceship during the Emergency.
In the last few months, Justice Khanna has in fact been in the same courtroom as his uncle – Courtroom Number 2, where a life-size portrait of the senior Justice Khanna hangs..
Source : Indian Express
