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Chief Justices Of India

Name Tenure

Harilal RS,. Kania ................................................................... 26 January 1950—6 November 1951

M. Patanjali Sastri .............................................................. 7 November 1951—3 January 1954

Mehr Chand Mahajan ....................................................... 4 January 1954—22 December 1954

B.K. Mukherjea .................................................................. 23 December 1954—31 January 1956

S.R. Das ............................................................................... 1 February 1956—30 September 1959

Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha ........................................... 1 October 1959—31 January 1964

P.B. Gajendragadkar .......................................................... 1 February 1964—15 March 1966

A.K. Sarkar ......................................................................... 16 March 1966—29 June 1966

K. Subba Rao ...................................................................... 30 June 1966—11 April 1967

K.N. Wanchoo .................................................................... 12 April 1967—24 February 1968

M. Hidayatullah ................................................................ 25 February 1968—16 December 1970

RS,.C. Shah .............................................................................. 17 December 1970—21 January 1971

S.M. Sikri ............................................................................. 22 January 1971—25 April 1973

A.N. Ray ............................................................................. 26 April 1973—28 January 1977

M.H. Beg ............................................................................. 29 January 1977—21 February 1978

Y.V. Chandrachud .............................................................. 22 February 1978—11 July 1985

Prafullachandra Natvarlal Bhagwati................................... 12 July 1985—20 December 1986

R.S. Pathak .......................................................................... 21 December 1986—18 June 1989

E.S. Venkataramaiah ......................................................... 19 June 1989—17 December 1989

S. Mukherjee ....................................................................... 18 December 1989—25 September 1990

Ranganath Mishra ............................................................. 25 September 1990—24 November 1991

K.N. Singh .......................................................................... 25 November 1991—12 December 1991

M.H. Kania ......................................................................... 13 December 1991—17 November 1992

L.M. Sharma ....................................................................... 18 November 1992—11 February 1993

M.N. Venkatachalaiah ...................................................... 12 February 1993—24 October 1994

A.M. Ahmadi ..................................................................... 25 October 1994—24 March 1997

RS,.S. Verma ............................................................................ 25 March 1997—18 January 1998

M.M. Punchhi ..................................................................... 18 January 1998—9 October 1998

A.S. Anand.......................................................................... 10 October 1998—31 October 2001

S.P. Bharucha ...................................................................... 1 November 2001—5 May 2002

B.N. Kirpal .......................................................................... 6 May 2002—7 November 2002

G.B. Pattanaik .................................................................... 8 November 2002—18 December 2002

V.N. Khare .......................................................................... 19 December 2002—1 May 2004

S. Rajendra Babu ................................................................ 02 May 2004—31 May 2004

R.C. Lahoti .......................................................................... 01 June 2004—31 October 2005

Y.K. Sabharwal ................................................................... 01 November 2005—13 January 2007

K.G. Balakrishnan.............................................................. 14 January 2007—11 May 2010

S.H. Kapadia ...................................................................... 12 May 2010—28 Sep 2012

Altamas Kabir ...................................................................29 September 2012 18 July 2013

P. Sathasivam.....................................................................19 July 2013---26 April 2014

Rajendra Mal Lodha..................................................................27 April 2014 27 September 2014

H. L. Dattu.................................................................. 28/09/2014 - 02/12/2015

Tirath Singh Thakur..................................................................... 03/12/2015-03/01/2017

Jagdish Singh Khehar........................................................04/01/2017-...28 Aug 2017

Dipak Misra.................................................................. 28 Aug 2017 (to 2 Oct 2018)

Notes

Justice Dipak Misra became the 45th Chief Justice of India, and the first in 67 years to have `Z' category security cover. On July 30, 2015, in a pre dawn hearing, a Justice Mis ra-led bench had rejected 1993 Mumbai blasts condemned prisoner Yakub Memon's last-gasp plea for commutation of his death penalty . Shortly thereafter, a threat letter necessitated `Z' category security for him. Justice Misra becomes the third person from Odisha to become CJI. (Dhananjay Mahapatra |Dipak Misra is CJI, will serve till Oct 2018 |Aug 29 2017 : The Times of India (Delhi))

See also

Supreme Court: India (mainly SC's rulings)

Supreme Court, India: Administrative issues

Supreme Court: India: Chief Justices

Supreme Court: India: Sitting judges