North India Statesman
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Justice BR Gavai will be the next Chief Justice of India: CJI Sanjeev Khanna has Bhushan R.K. Gawai is nominated as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The proposal recommending the bill has been sent to the Law Ministry. The Law Ministry had asked Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna to recommend the next Chief Justice’s name. The term of the current Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna ends on 13 May. Justice Gawai will become the 52nd Chief Justice of the country. He will take oath as the Chief Justice of India on 14 May. His term will be six months. Because he is scheduled to retire in November 2025.
Sanjeev Khanna was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India on 11 November last year. Since his retirement is also to be held on 13 May 2025, his tenure is also six months. Justice Gawai was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court on May 29, 2019. After becoming an additional judge of the Bombay High Court in November 2003, he was appointed a permanent judge in November 2005.
Gawai will become the second Dalit Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the country after Justice KG Balakrishnan in 2007. Justice Gawai has given several remarkable decisions as a judge of the Supreme Court. This includes the Modi government’s decision of demonetisation in 2016 and the decision to declare the election bond scheme unconstitutional.
