Justice Sanjiv Khanna will be sworn in as the 51st CJI on November 11 | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Judge Sanjiv Khannawhich has been part of several landmark Supreme Court rulings, such as striking down the electoral bonds scheme and upholding the abrogation of Article 370, will be sworn in as the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday. President Droupadi Murmu will take the oath of office at Rashtrapati Bhavan at a ceremony scheduled for 10am.
Judge Khanna will succeed Justice DY Chandrachudwho retired on Sunday, and his term will last until May 13, 2025.
The Center officially notified Justice Khanna’s appointment on October 24, following Chief Justice Chandrachud’s recommendation on October 16. Friday was Justice Chandrachud’s last day as CJI and he was given a rousing farewell by judges, lawyers and staff of the apex court and the bench. high courts.
Justice Khanna, who served as a Supreme Court judge since January 2019, has participated in several landmark judgments such as upholding the sanctity of EVMs, striking down the electoral bond scheme, upholding the abrogation of Article 370 and granting interim bail to erstwhile Delhi. CM Arvind Kejriwal.
Hailing from an illustrious Delhi family, Justice Khanna is the son of former Delhi High Court judge Justice Dev Raj Khanna and the nephew of prominent former judge HR Khanna.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who was elevated as a Supreme Court judge on January 18, 2019, was a third-generation lawyer before his appointment as a Supreme Court judge. He is driven by the zeal to reduce dependency and accelerate the delivery of justice.
Justice HR Khanna, Justice Khanna’s uncle, made headlines by resigning in 1976 after delivering a dissenting verdict in the infamous ADM Jabalpur case during the Emergency.
The majority judgment of a Constitution Bench upholding the abolition of fundamental rights during the Emergency was considered a “black mark” on the judiciary.
Justice HR Khanna declared the move unconstitutional and against the rule of law and paid a price when the then central government succeeded him and made Justice MH Beg the next CJI.
Justice HR Khanna was part of the landmark judgment proposing the basic structure doctrine in the 1973 Kesavananda Bharati case.
One of Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s notable judgments in the Supreme Court is upholding the use of electronic voting machines in elections, saying the devices were secure and eliminated booth capture and fake votes.
A bench headed by Justice Khanna on April 26 termed the suspicion of manipulation of the EVMs as “baseless” and rejected the demand to return to the old paper voting system.
He was also part of the five judges who declared electoral bonds, intended to finance political parties, unconstitutional.
Justice Khanna was part of the five-judge bench that upheld the Centre’s 2019 decision repealing Article 370 of the Constitution, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
It was the Justice Khanna-led bench that for the first time granted interim bail to Kejriwal, the then chief minister, till June 1, to campaign in the Lok Sabha elections in the excise tax scam cases.
Born on May 14, 1960, he studied law at the Campus Law Center of Delhi University.
Justice Khanna was the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA).
He enrolled as an advocate with the Delhi Bar Association in 1983 and initially practiced here at the District Courts of TisHazari Complex and later at the Delhi High Court.
He had a long tenure as a Senior Permanent Advisor to the Income Tax Department. In 2004, he was appointed as Standing Counsel (Civil) for the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
Justice Khanna had also argued in a number of criminal cases before the Delhi High Court as Additional Public Prosecutor and as amicus curiae.