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=Chief Justices Of India= | =Chief Justices Of India= |
Revision as of 18:09, 6 July 2018
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