Govt OKs appointment of Justice BR Gavai as CJI with effect from May 14
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--Govt OKs appointment of Justice BR Gavai as CJI with effect from May 14
NEW DELHI – The government on Tuesday approved the appointment of Supreme Court's Justice B.R. Gavai as the Chief Justice of India with effect from May 14. On Apr. 16, Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna had recommended the appointment of Justice Gavai as his successor and the 52nd Chief Justice of India. Khanna is due to retire on May 13 after a tenure of about six months as the Chief Justice.
Gavai had joined the Bar in 1985 and practised constitutional and administrative law. He was the standing counsel for the Municipal Corporation of Nagpur, Amravati Municipal Corporation, and Amravati University. Thereafter, he was appointed assistant government pleader and additional public prosecutor in the Bombay High Court from August 1992 to July 1993.
Gavai was elevated as an additional judge of the high court in 2003 and became its permanent judge in 2005. He had presided over benches having all types of assignments at the principal seat in Mumbai, as well as benches in Nagpur, Aurangabad, and Panaji in the Bombay High Court.
Gavai became a judge of the top court in 2019 and is slated to retire on Nov. 23. After former judge K.G. Balakrishnan, who became the chief justice in 2007, Justice Gavai will be the second dalit to hold the position. As a judge, Justice Gavai was involved in the verdict upholding the government's 2016 demonetisation scheme and the judgement that declared the electoral bond scheme unconstitutional. Justice Gavai was also involved in the verdict that upheld the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir, which conferred special status to the state. End
Reported by Surya Tripathi
Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury
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