New Delhi, Oct 24 (PTI) Senior-most Supreme Court docket decide Sanjiv Khanna, who is ready to take oath because the 51st Chief Justice of India, has been a part of a number of landmark judgements together with these associated to electoral bonds, and abrogation of Article 370.
Justice Khanna, who hails from an illustrious Delhi-based household and is the nephew of late former apex courtroom decide H R Khanna, will take cost from incumbent CJI D Y Chandrachud.
His identify was advisable by CJI Chandrachud as his successor to the Centre on October 17.
He’ll function the chief of the expansive Indian judicial system for simply little over six months. He would retire on Might 13, 2025.
Justice Khanna was elevated as an extra decide of the Delhi Excessive Court docket in 2005 and was made a everlasting decide in 2006. He was elevated as a decide of the Supreme Court docket on January 18, 2019.
Born on Might 14, 1960, he studied regulation on the Campus Legislation Centre of Delhi College.
Among the notable judgments of Justice Khanna within the Supreme Court docket embody upholding using digital voting machines in elections, saying the units had been safe and eradicated sales space capturing and bogus voting.
He was additionally a part of the five-judge bench that declared the electoral bond scheme, meant for funding of political events, as unconstitutional.
Justice Khanna was part of the five-judge bench, which upheld the Centre’s 2019 resolution abrogating Article 370 of the Structure which granted a particular standing to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Justice Khanna, who’s the senior-most decide after the outgoing CJI, and the manager chairman of the Nationwide Authorized Service Authority (NALSA), had granted interim bail to the then Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused within the alleged Delhi excise coverage rip-off instances, for campaigning in Lok Sabha elections.
He’s the nephew of former apex courtroom decide H R Khanna, who was a part of the landmark verdict propounding the essential construction doctrine in Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.
Justice Khanna will assume costs on November 11, a day after the retirement of CJI Chandrachud who served for 2 years on the helm of the Indian judiciary.
The retirement age of Supreme Court docket judges is 65 years.
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