Sep 2, 2018

Ranjan Gogoi will take over next Chief Justice of India, October 3



It is a practice for the Law Ministry that he wrote to the Chief Justice and asked who would be his successor.
The second most senior judge in the Supreme Court, Ranjan Gogoi, will take over as the next Chief Justice of India on October 3. Sources said that keeping the tradition of seniority of judges, Chief Justice Deepak Mishra will soon propose Justice Gogoi as his successor. According to sources, Justice Gogoi will remain Chief Justice till 17th November next year. A few days ago, the Law Ministry had asked Chief Justice Deepak Mishra to recommend the name of his successor, after which these developments have come up. It is a practice for the Law Ministry that he wrote to the Chief Justice and asked who would be his successor.

Justice Ranjan Gogoi was among the four judges who had criticized Chief Justice Justice Deepak Mishra in a press conference in January saying that he was misusing his authority to become Supreme Court Master of the Roster in the allocation of cases. Are there. At present, he is hearing the case of Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC).

The formal announcement of the name of Justice Gogoi may occur when Chief Justice Justice Deepak Mishra will answer the letter of the law ministry. He is retiring on 2nd October and at least one month before he has to decide his successor.
Judge Gogoi, who became the judge of the Supreme Court in 2012, is known as a soft-spoken but extremely strict judge.

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