Justice Gogoi will be sworn in as the 46th CJI by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Justice Ranjan Gogoi will take oath as the Chief Justice of India on Wednesday after Justice Dipak Misra retired from the post on Monday. Justice Gogoi will be sworn in as the 46th CJI by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Justice Gogoi was among the four senior-most judges to virtually revolt against Justice Misra in January over various issues including assigning of cases in the apex court.
CJI Misra's tumultuous 13-month tenure drew to a close on Monday. Misra used his last public address as the top judge to stress the independence of judiciary stands "erect" and will remain so, asserting there is "collegiality" amongst the judges of the Supreme Court. At the farewell ceremony, Justice Gogoi praised the outgoing CJI for an "illustrious career".
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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 "Justice Ranjan Gogoi with outgoing CJI Justice Dipak Misra, Oct 1, 2018. (PTI Photo)")
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