Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai took oath because the 52nd Chief Justice of India (CJI), in presence of President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday, turning into the primary Buddhist to move the nation’s judiciary.
He succeeds CJI Sanjiv Khanna, who retired on Tuesday, and may have a tenure of a bit of greater than six months, retiring on November 23, 2025 when he turns 65.
Justice Gavai can also be the second individual from the Scheduled Caste group to carry the place, after Justice Okay G Balakrishnan. Since its institution in 1950, the Supreme Court docket has solely had seven judges from the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.
Justice Gavai has typically invoked the spirit of the Structure to acknowledge how affirmative motion has formed his identification. “It’s solely because of Dr B R Ambedkar’s efforts that somebody like me, who studied in a semi-slum space at a municipal college, may attain this place,” he had mentioned in a speech in April 2024. When he ended that speech with a chant of “Jai Bhim,” the choose obtained a standing ovation from the group.
Justice Gavai was elevated as a Supreme Court docket choose on Might 24, 2019. Ever since, he has been part of a number of Structure benches which have delivered landmark rulings.
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.
Born on November 24, 1960, at Amravati, Justice Gavai was elevated as an Further Decide of the Bombay Excessive Court docket on November 14, 2003. He grew to become a everlasting choose of the Excessive Court docket on November 12, 2005.
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He joined the Bar on March 16, 1985, and labored with Raja S Bhonsale, former Advocate Basic and Bombay Excessive Court docket Decide, until 1987. After 1990, he practised primarily earlier than the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay Excessive Court docket 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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