President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai because the 52nd Chief Justice of India.
Justice Gavai will take the oath of workplace on Could 14 after the incumbent CJI Sanjiv Khanna retires.
He has a tenure of greater than six months and can retire on November 23, 2025. Supreme Courtroom judges retire at 65.
He would be the second individual from the Scheduled Caste neighborhood to turn into CJI. The primary was Justice Ok G Balakrishnan.
A notification issued by the Ministry of Legislation and Justice Tuesday mentioned: “In train of the powers conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Structure of India, the President is happy to nominate Shri Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, Choose of the Supreme Courtroom, to be the Chief Justice of India with impact from 14th Could, 2025.”
Union Legislation Minister Union Legislation Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal shared the notification on the micro running a blog website X.
Justice Gavai was elevated as a Supreme Courtroom decide on Could 24, 2019. He has been part of a number of Structure benches which have delivered landmark rulings.
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He was a part of a five-judge Structure bench which, in December 2023, unanimously upheld the Centre’s choice to abrogate provisions of Article 370 bestowing particular standing to Jammu and Kashmir.
One other five-judge Structure bench of which Justice Gavai was a component annulled the electoral bonds scheme for political funding.
He was additionally a part of a five-judge Structure bench which, by a 4:1 majority verdict, gave its stamp of approval to the Centre’s 2016 choice to demonetise `1,000 and `500 forex notes.
Justice Gavai was a part of a seven-judge Structure bench which, by a 6:1 majority, held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications throughout the Scheduled Castes with the intention to grant reservation for castes which can be socially and educationally extra backward amongst them.
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In one other vital verdict, a bench headed by Justice Gavai laid down pan-India tips and mentioned no property ought to be demolished with out a prior showcause discover. The ruling mentioned that affected individuals have to be given 15 days to reply.
He’s additionally heading the bench which is listening to issues associated to forests, wildlife and safety of timber.
Born on November 24, 1960, at Amravati, Justice Gavai was elevated as an Extra Choose of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom on November 14, 2003. He grew to become a everlasting decide of the Excessive Courtroom on November 12, 2005.
He joined the Bar on March 16, 1985, and labored with Raja S Bhonsale, former Advocate Basic and Bombay Excessive Courtroom Choose, until 1987. After 1990, he practised primarily earlier than the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay Excessive Courtroom in Constitutional and Administrative Legislation. He was the standing counsel for the Municipal Company of Nagpur, Amravati Municipal Company and Amravati College.
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He was an assistant authorities pleader and extra public prosecutor within the Bombay Excessive Courtroom’s Nagpur bench from August 1992 to July 1993. He was appointed as a authorities pleader and public prosecutor for the Nagpur bench on January 17, 2000.
In line with the Memorandum of Process (MoP) — a set of paperwork guiding the appointment, elevation and switch of Excessive Courtroom and Supreme Courtroom judges — the Legislation Minister writes to the CJI to call his or her successor. The MoP says essentially the most senior decide of the apex court docket is taken into account match to carry the workplace of the CJI and the views of the outgoing head of the judiciary must be sought “at an applicable time”.