Justice Mishra recommended as next Chief Justice of India

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Jagdish Singh Khehar is learnt to have formally recommended the name of senior-most Supreme Court Judge Dipak Mishra as his successor.

Sources told DNA that CJI Khehar, whose tenure ends on August 27, wrote to the central government on Tuesday, recommending his successor's name.

As CJI, Justice Mishra will be at the helm till October 2 next year, a tenure of about 14 months.

As mandated under the Memorandum of Procedure, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote to CJI Khehar to name his successor in November.

As a Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Mishra was part of the bench that ordered playing of the National Anthem at the start of a film in movie theatres.

He was also on the bench that ruled that states can provide reservation in promotions only if there is sufficient data and evidence to justify the same.

He also headed the bench that rejected the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon appeal against execution as also upheld the death sentence awarded to the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape case on 5th May, 2017.

Justice Mishra was part of the bench that gave the landmark judgment directing that unless the offence was sensitive in nature, copies of FIR must be uploaded within 24 hours so as to allow those named in the FIR to take legal recourse.

He also headed the Bench that, while deciding the issue of Constitutional validity of criminal defamation, ruled that Right to Life under Article 21 included right to reputation