NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge Sanjiv Khanna will be taking oath as the 51st Chief Justice of India (CJI) on November 11.
Sanjiv Khanna, the second-most senior judge in the top court, will succeed CJI DY Chandrachud, whose tenure ends on November 10.
Sanjiv Khanna has been part of several landmark judgements including those related to electoral bonds , and abrogation of Article 370 .
He will serve as the CJI for just a little over six months and retire on May 13, 2025.
Who is Justice Sanjiv Khanna?
Born on May 14, 1960, Justice Khanna Justice Khanna hails from an illustrious Delhi-based family and is the nephew of late former Supreme Court judge HR Khanna, who was part of the landmark verdict propounding the basic structure doctrine in the Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.
Justice Khanna enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983 and initially practised at the district courts at the Tis Hazari complex, and later in the high court of Delhi and tribunals.
He was elevated as an additional Judge of the Delhi high court in 2005 and was made a permanent judge in 2006. Justice Khanna was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court on January 18, 2019.
His notable judgements
Justice Khanna was part of the bench that upheld the use of electronic voting machines in elections, saying the devices were secure and eliminated booth capturing and bogus voting. He was among the five judges who declared the electoral bond scheme, meant for political parties' funding, unconstitutional.
Justice Khanna was also a part of the five-judge bench, which upheld the Centre's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution -- a move that stripped a special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Justice Khanna, who is the executive chairman of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA), had granted interim bail to the then Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam cases, for campaigning for this year's Lok Sabha polls.
Sanjiv Khanna, the second-most senior judge in the top court, will succeed CJI DY Chandrachud, whose tenure ends on November 10.
Sanjiv Khanna has been part of several landmark judgements including those related to electoral bonds , and abrogation of Article 370 .
He will serve as the CJI for just a little over six months and retire on May 13, 2025.
Who is Justice Sanjiv Khanna?
Born on May 14, 1960, Justice Khanna Justice Khanna hails from an illustrious Delhi-based family and is the nephew of late former Supreme Court judge HR Khanna, who was part of the landmark verdict propounding the basic structure doctrine in the Kesavananda Bharati case of 1973.
Justice Khanna enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983 and initially practised at the district courts at the Tis Hazari complex, and later in the high court of Delhi and tribunals.
He was elevated as an additional Judge of the Delhi high court in 2005 and was made a permanent judge in 2006. Justice Khanna was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court on January 18, 2019.
His notable judgements
Justice Khanna was part of the bench that upheld the use of electronic voting machines in elections, saying the devices were secure and eliminated booth capturing and bogus voting. He was among the five judges who declared the electoral bond scheme, meant for political parties' funding, unconstitutional.
Justice Khanna was also a part of the five-judge bench, which upheld the Centre's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution -- a move that stripped a special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Justice Khanna, who is the executive chairman of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA), had granted interim bail to the then Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, an accused in the alleged Delhi excise policy scam cases, for campaigning for this year's Lok Sabha polls.
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