Justice Gogoi will assume office on October 3, 2018.
Justice Ranjan Gogoi on was Thursday appointed the next Chief Justice of India as President Ram Nath Kovind approved the recommendation sent by incumbent CJI Dipak Misra.
Justice Gogoi will assume office on October 3, 2018 after the retirement of the CJI Misra.
Justice Misra had on September 4 sent a letter to the Government of India, recommending Justice Gogoi's name for the next CJI. CJI Misra is scheduled to retire on October 2.
As per convention, the outgoing CJI sends the recommendation about his successor 30 days before he is to demit office. The outgoing CJI usually recommends the name of the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court as his successor.
Justice Gogoi is likely to take oath as 46th CJI on 3 October. He is due to retire on November 17, 2019.
Earlier, rumours about the government introducing a bill to increase the retirement age of judges were doing the rounds in media, only to be later put to rest by Law Ministry denying such speculations.
Who is Justice Gogoi?
Born on November 18, 1954, Justice Gogoi was enrolled as an advocate in 1978. He practised in the Gauhati High Court on constitutional, taxation and company matters. He was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Gauhati High Court on February 28, 2001. On September 9, 2010, he was transferred to the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
He was appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court on February 12, 2011. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on April 23, 2012.
It is worth the mention that Justice Ranjan Gogoi was one of the four senior Supreme Court judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, MB Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- who virtually revolted against CJI Misra over "selective" case allocation and certain judicial orders in January this year.
The four senior Supreme Court judges had called a press conference in New Delhi in the second week of January and said the situation in the top court was "not in order" and that many "less than desirable" things had taken place.
At the unprecedented press conference, Justice Gogoi had hinted that the allocation of a case seeking an investigation in the death of special CBI judge BH Loya to a junior judge led to the ‘revolt’.
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