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Chief Justice of India names his successor: Justice Ranjan Gogoi
Why it is in news?
- Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra recommended Justice Ranjan Gogoi as his successor and the 46th Chief Justice of India.
- Law Ministry sources confirmed the receipt of the recommendation letter of the Chief Justice.
- If the government approves the recommendation, Justice Gogoi would have a tenure as Chief Justice of India of about 13 months, from October 3, 2018 till his retirement on November 17, 2019.
- Chief Justice Misra has followed convention by recommending the next senior most Supreme Court judge, Justice Gogoi, as his successor.
Justice Gogoi
- He joined the Bar in 1978 and practised mainly in the Gauhati High Court.
- He was appointed as permanent judge of the High Court on February 28, 2001.
- He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 9, 2010 and appointed its Chief Justice in February 2011.
- He was elevated to the Supreme Court on April 23, 2012.
- He would be the first CJI from the north-eastern region.
- He is the son of Keshab Chandra Gogoi, a former Assam Chief Minister during the Congress regime in 1982.
- , born on November 18, 1954, is a native of Assam.
- Justice Gogoi was one of the four most senior Supreme Court judges who held the January 12 press conference bringing up the issue of selective assignment of sensitive cases by recent CJIs to certain judges in the Supreme Court.
Master of Roster
- Chief Justice Misra subsequently published a subject-wise roster of cases assigned to judges.
- In various judgments, one of them by a Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice Misra himself, the Supreme Court went on to declare the CJI the ‘master of roster’.
- In a recent lecture, Justice Gogoi said the country needs independent journalists and “noisy judges”.
Source
The Hindu