List of Chief Justice of India (CJI)
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Complete List of Chief Justice of India (CJI) (1950-2022)
NV Ramana has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India on 6th April 2021. Sharad Arvind Bobde who took the office of Chief Justice of India on November 2019 is going to retire on 23rd April 2021, the day NV Ramana will take oath as India’s 48th CJI.
- NV Ramana has practised in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Central and Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunals and the Supreme Court of India in Civil, Criminal, Constitutional, Labour, Service and Election matters.
- He has also functioned as Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh.
- He was elevated as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in September 2013 and later in February 2014 he was elevated as Supreme Court Judge.
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Chief Justice of India is the head of the judiciary system in India. The chief justice is the head of the Supreme Court and is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. Article 145 of the Constitution gives the right to the Chief Justice of India to allocate the respective matters of relevance to the bench of judges.
| Complete List of Chief Justice of India (CJI) (1950- 2022) | ||
| S.No | Name | Period |
| 1 | H. J. Kania | 1950-1951 |
| 2 | M. Patanjali Sastri | 1951-1954 |
| 3 | Mehr Chand Mahajan | 1954 |
| 4 | Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | 1954-1956 |
| 5 | Sudhi Ranjan Das | 1956-1959 |
| 6 | Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha | 1959-1964 |
| 7 | P. B. Gajendragadkar | 1964-1966 |
| 8 | Amal Kumar Sarkar | 1966 |
| 9 | Koka Subba Rao | 1966-1967 |
| 10 | Kailas Nath Wanchoo | 1967-1968 |
| 11 | Mohammad Hidayatullah[10] | 1968-1970 |
| 12 | Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah | 1970-71 |
| 13 | Sarv Mittra Sikri | 1971-73 |
| 14 | Ajit Nath Ray | 1973-1977 |
| 15 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | 1977-1978 |
| 16 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud | 1978-1985 |
| 17 | Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati | 1985-1986 |
| 18 | Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | 1986-1989 |
| 19 | Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah | 1989 |
| 20 | Sabyasachi Mukharji | 1989-1990 |
| 21 | Ranganath Misra | 1990-1991 |
| 22 | Kamal Narain Singh | 1991 |
| 23 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 1991-1992 |
| 24 | Lalit Mohan Sharma | 1992-1993 |
| 25 | Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah | 1993-1994 |
| 26 | Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi | 1994-1997 |
| 27 | Jagdish Sharan Verma | 1997-1998 |
| 28 | Madan Mohan Punchhi | 1998 |
| 29 | Adarsh Sein Anand | 1998-2001 |
| 30 | Sam Piroj Bharucha | 2001-2002 |
| 31 | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 2002 |
| 32 | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | 2002 |
| 33 | V. N. Khare | 2002-2004 |
| 34 | S. Rajendra Babu | 2004 |
| 35 | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | 2004-2005 |
| 36 | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 2005-2007 |
| 37 | K. G. Balakrishnan | 2007-2010 |
| 38 | S. H. Kapadia | 2010-2012 |
| 39 | Altamas Kabir | 2012-2013 |
| 40 | P. Sathasivam | 2013-2014 |
| 41 | Rajendra Mal Lodha | 2014 |
| 42 | H. L. Dattu | 2014-2015 |
| 43 | T. S. Thakur | 2015-2017 |
| 44 | J. S. Khehar | 2017 |
| 45 | Dipak Misra | 2017-2018 |
| 46 | Ranjan Gogoi | 2018-19 |
| 47 | Sharad Arvind Bobde | 2019- April 2021 |
| 48 | NV Ramana | 23 April 2021 – Incumbent (Will retire on 26 August 2022) |
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Roles of Chief Justice of India
- He/she gives suggestions or consult with the president for the appointment of Supreme Court and High court judges.
- He/she appoints ad-hoc Supreme Court judges (Article 127 of the constitution).
- He/she appoints retired judges to sit in the Supreme Court (Article 128 of the constitution).
- A Chief Justice of India can change the seat of a Supreme Court judge from Delhi to any other place with the approval of the President (Article 130)
- The officers and servant appointments of the Supreme Court is made by the Chief Justice of India (Article 148).
- Chief Justice of India holds the power to move high court judges from one court to another (Article 222).
- To resolve a financial dispute between state and Centre, a Chief Justice of India can appoint an arbitrator.
- One of the major roles of the Chief Justice of India which also caused a major uproar in the past few years is that a Chief Justice of India has the power to appoint benches to hear cases in the Supreme Court. It is the Chief Justice of India who decides which judge will hear which case.
- He/she gives oath to the President of India and Governors.
