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Informist, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024

 

--Judge Sanjiv Khanna takes oath as 51st Chief Justice of India 

 

NEW DELHI – Supreme Court judge Sanjiv Khanna was sworn in as the 51st Chief Justice of India Monday. President of India Droupadi Murmu administered the oath taking of Justice Khanna at the Rashtrapati Bhavan with former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other important dignitaries in attendance. Justice Khanna shall have a tenure of about six months till he reaches the age of 65 years, the retirement age for Supreme Court Judges. His tenure ends May 13, 2025. 

 

On Oct. 24, President Murmu had appointed Khanna as the Chief Justice after the then Chief Justice Chandrachud recommended his name. Justice Khanna was enrolled as an advocate in 1983, and has practised in the fields of constitutional law, direct taxation, arbitration, commercial law, company law, land law, environmental law, and medical negligence. Justice Khanna was elevated as an additional judge in the Delhi High Court in 2005 and was made a permanent judge in 2006.

 

Thereafter, he was elevated as a judge of the apex court in 2019. In the top court, he has passed some notable verdicts, including on Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, Electoral Bonds case, Electronic Voting Machine and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail case. 

 

In 2019, Justice Khanna authored the majority opinion in the Constitution Bench case and held that the Right to Information Act was applicable to the Chief Justice of India. In a different case, Justice Khanna had dissented from two judges in 2021 and held that a requisite process was not followed for the capital's Central Vista project. Declaring the government's electoral bond scheme unconstitutional, Justice Khanna observed that the right to privacy of donors does not arise if a donation was made through a banking channel. He said that the donor's identity is "asymmetrically known to the person and the officers of the bank from where the bond is purchased."

 

Further, rejecting a plea seeking 100% voter verifiable paper audit trail verification of votes cast on electronic voting machines, Justice Khanna said he wished to "put on record all safeguards adopted by the ECI (Election Commission of India) to ensure free and fair elections". Justice Khanna said that the current system ensures quick, error-free and mischief-free counting of votes.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Deepshikha Bhardwaj

 

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