Justice NV Ramana has been appointed as the following Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind. He will take oath on April 24. Ramana will function the forty eighth Chief Justice of India until August 26, 2022 — a time period of over sixteen months.
Last month, Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, who is because of retire on April 23, had advisable Justice NV Ramana as his successor.
Appointed as a decide of the highest courtroom on February 17, 2014, Justice Ramana has been part of many vital rulings, together with these on establishing of particular courts for fast-tracking legal circumstances towards MPs and MLAs; bringing the CJI’s workplace amenable to the Right to Information Act; and, lifting Internet restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the matter of MPs and MLAs, he headed a bench that requested High Court Chief Justices on September 16, 2020, to represent a Special Bench to observe the progress of trials in such circumstances and “forthwith” record these which are pending attributable to a keep and determine whether or not it needs to be lifted or not.
Last yr, a Constitution bench headed by Justice Ramana dismissed healing petitions filed by convicts within the December 2012 gangrape and homicide case, resulting in their execution.
Justice Ramana enrolled as an Advocate on February 10, 1983. Besides serving on the panel of counsel for numerous Government our bodies, he additionally put in time as Additional Standing Counsel for the Central Government, Standing Counsel for Railways within the Central Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad, and as Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh. He was elevated as a everlasting Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000 and was Acting Chief Justice of AP HC from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013.
