Chief Justice of India: Chief Justice DY Chandrachud has sent a recommendation to the Central Government to make the second senior Justice of the Supreme Court, Sanjiv Khanna, the Chief Justice (CJI). Chief Justice Chandrachud is retiring on 10 November 2024. Justice Khanna will become the Chief Justice from November 11. His tenure will be about 6 months. Justice Sanjeev Khanna will retire next year on 13 May 2025.
The central government had asked to send recommendations
Earlier, on last Friday (11 October 2024), the Central Government had written a letter to the CJI asking him to send his recommendation as per the Memorandum of Procedure. Justice Sanjeev Khanna was born on 14 May 1960. He was registered as an advocate with Delhi Bar Council in the year 1983. He initially practiced in the district courts located at Tis Hazari Complex and later moved to the Delhi High Court and tribunals.
Who is Justice Sanjeev Khanna?
He served as Senior Standing Counsel in the Income Tax Department for a long time and in 2004 he was appointed Standing Counsel (Civil) for the National Capital Territory of Delhi. He has appeared and argued in many criminal cases in the Delhi High Court as Additional Public Prosecutor and Amicus Curiae.
In 2005, he was promoted as Additional Judge of Delhi High Court and made a permanent judge in 2006. As a judge of Delhi High Court, he has also held the post of Chairman/In-charge of Delhi Academy, Delhi International Arbitration Center and District Court. Justice Sanjeev Khanna was made the Justice of the Supreme Court on 18 January 2019. Justice Khanna is among those judges who were elevated to the Supreme Court even before becoming the Chief Justice of any High Court.
He held the post of Chairman, Supreme Court Legal Services Committee from 17 June 2023 to 25 December 2023 and is currently the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority and Member of the Governing Council of the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal