Justice Sanjiv Khanna, senior choose of the Supreme Courtroom, shall be sworn in because the 51st Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday, November 11.
President Droupadi Murmu will administer the oath of workplace to him at 10 am. He’s set to serve a six-month time period as Chief Justice of India.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the second-most senior choose of the Supreme Courtroom, was proposed for the position of Chief Justice by the outgoing CJI DY Chandrachud, who retired on November 10, after serving since November 9, 2022.
Born on Might 14, 1960, Justice Sanjiv Khanna started his authorized profession in 1983 as an advocate with the Delhi Bar Council. He has intensive expertise in constitutional legislation, taxation, arbitration, industrial legislation, and environmental legislation.
Justice Khanna additionally served because the Senior Standing Counsel for the Revenue Tax Division. In 2004, he was appointed Standing Counsel (Civil) for the Nationwide Capital Territory of Delhi.
Justice Khanna was appointed an extra choose of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom in 2005 and have become a everlasting choose in 2006, marking the start of his vital judicial profession.
Throughout his tenure, Justice Khanna additionally made vital contributions to the Delhi Judicial Academy, Delhi Worldwide Arbitration Centre, and District Courtroom Mediation Centres, taking part in a key position in shaping the judicial panorama.
On January 18, 2019, Justice Khanna was appointed as a Choose of the Supreme Courtroom with out having beforehand served as Chief Justice of a Excessive Courtroom.
Justice Khanna has made many landmark judgements together with granting interim bail to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. This choice enabled Kejriwal to marketing campaign throughout the Lok Sabha elections.
In one other necessary ruling, Justice Khanna emphasised that delays in proceedings might function a sound floor for granting bail underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA). This choice got here in a case involving Delhi’s former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Justice Khanna at present serves because the Govt Chairman of the Nationwide Authorized Providers Authority and is a member of the Governing Council of the Nationwide Judicial Academy in Bhopal.
