भारत के नए मुख्य न्यायाधीश जस्टिस सूर्यकान्त ने सोमवार को राष्ट्रपति भवन में भारत के 53वें मुख्य न्यायाधीश के रूप में शपथ ली। राष्ट्रपति द्रौपदी मुर्मु ने उन्हें शपथ दिलाई।
बताया जा रहा है, हाल के कुछ मुख्य न्यायाधीशों के कार्यकाल को देखें तो जस्टिस सूर्यकांत कार्यकाल लंबा होगा, जो कि 15 महीने, यानी फ़रवरी 2027 तक चलेगा।
आपको बता दें की चीफ़ जस्टिस ऑफ इंडिया की शपथ भारत के राष्ट्रपति भवन में तत्कालीन राष्ट्रपति की मौजूदगी में होती है, इस शपथ ग्रहण समारोह के दौरान प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी समेत कई बड़े नेता भी मौजूद थे।
चीफ़ जस्टिस भारत के न्यायपालिका व्यवस्था के मुख्य अधिकारी होते हैं। वे ना केवल एक जज के तौर पर मामलों में फैसले लेते हैं, बल्कि सुप्रीम कोर्ट से जुड़ी सारी प्रशासनिक कार्यों पर भी निर्णय लेते हैं।
जस्टिस सूर्यकांत ने अपने जीवन के 22वें वर्ष से हरियाणा में वकालत शुरू की थी, आज वे भारत के CJI बने।
| No. | Name (birth–death) |
Start of Term | End of Term | Parent High Court | Appointed by (President of India) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harilal Jekisundas Kania (1890–1951) |
26 January 1950 | 6 November 1951† | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad |
| 2 | Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri (1889–1963) |
7 November 1951 | 3 January 1954 | Madras | |
| 3 | Mehr Chand Mahajan (1889–1967) |
4 January 1954 | 22 December 1954 | Lahore | |
| 4 | Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (1891–1956) |
23 December 1954 | 31 January 1956‡ | Calcutta | |
| 5 | Sudhi Ranjan Das (1894–1977) |
1 February 1956 | 30 September 1959 | Calcutta | |
| 6 | Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (1899–1986) |
1 October 1959 | 31 January 1964 | Patna | |
| 7 | Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar (1901–1981) |
1 February 1964 | 15 March 1966 | Bombay | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 8 | Amal Kumar Sarkar (1901–2001) |
16 March 1966 | 29 June 1966 | Calcutta | |
| 9 | Koka Subba Rao (1902–1976) |
30 June 1966 | 11 April 1967‡ | Madras | |
| 10 | Kailas Nath Wanchoo (1903–1988) |
12 April 1967 | 24 February 1968 | Allahabad | |
| 11 | Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992)[a] |
25 February 1968 | 16 December 1970 | Nagpur | Zakir Hussain |
| 12 | Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (1906–1991) |
17 December 1970 | 21 January 1971 | Bombay | V. V. Giri |
| 13 | Sarv Mittra Sikri (1908–1992) |
22 January 1971 | 25 April 1973 | Bar Council | |
| 14 | Ajit Nath Ray (1912–2009) |
26 April 1973 | 28 January 1977 | Calcutta | |
| 15 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg (1913–1988) |
29 January 1977 | 21 February 1978 | Allahabad | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed |
| 16 | Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (1920–2008) |
22 February 1978 | 11 July 1985 | Bombay | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 17 | Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (1921–2017) |
12 July 1985 | 20 December 1986 | Gujarat | Zail Singh |
| 18 | Raghunandan Swarup Pathak (1924–2007) |
21 December 1986 | 18 June 1989‡ | Allahabad | |
| 19 | Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah (1924–1997) |
19 June 1989 | 17 December 1989 | Karnataka | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 20 | Sabyasachi Mukharji (1927–1990) |
18 December 1989 | 25 September 1990† | Calcutta | |
| 21 | Ranganath Misra (1926–2012) |
26 September 1990 | 24 November 1991 | Orissa | |
| 22 | Kamal Narain Singh (1926–2022) |
25 November 1991 | 12 December 1991 | Allahabad | |
| 23 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania (1927–2016) |
13 December 1991 | 17 November 1992 | Bombay | |
| 24 | Lalit Mohan Sharma (1928–2008) |
18 November 1992 | 11 February 1993 | Patna | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 25 | Manepalli Narayanarao Venkatachaliah (born 1929) |
12 February 1993 | 24 October 1994 | Karnataka | |
| 26 | Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (1932–2023) |
25 October 1994 | 24 March 1997 | Gujarat | |
| 27 | Jagdish Sharan Verma (1933–2013) |
25 March 1997 | 17 January 1998 | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 28 | Madan Mohan Punchhi (1933–2015) |
18 January 1998 | 9 October 1998 | Punjab and Haryana | K. R. Narayanan |
| 29 | Adarsh Sein Anand (1936–2017) |
10 October 1998 | 31 October 2001 | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 30 | Sam Piroj Bharucha (born 1937) |
1 November 2001 | 5 May 2002 | Bombay | |
| 31 | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (born 1937) |
6 May 2002 | 7 November 2002 | Delhi | |
| 32 | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 1937) |
8 November 2002 | 18 December 2002 | Orissa | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 33 | Vishweshwar Nath Khare (born 1939) |
19 December 2002 | 1 May 2004 | Allahabad | |
| 34 | S. Rajendra Babu (born 1939) |
2 May 2004 | 31 May 2004 | Karnataka | |
| 35 | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (1940–2022) |
1 June 2004 | 31 October 2005 | Madhya Pradesh | |
| 36 | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (1942–2015) |
1 November 2005 | 13 January 2007 | Delhi | |
| 37 | Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan (born 1945) |
14 January 2007 | 11 May 2010 | Kerala | |
| 38 | Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016) |
12 May 2010 | 28 September 2012 | Bombay | Pratibha Patil |
| 39 | Altamas Kabir (1948–2017) |
29 September 2012 | 18 July 2013 | Calcutta | Pranab Mukherjee |
| 40 | Palanisamy Sathasivam (born 1949) |
19 July 2013 | 26 April 2014 | Madras | |
| 41 | Rajendra Mal Lodha (born 1949) |
27 April 2014 | 27 September 2014 | Rajasthan | |
| 42 | Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (born 1950) |
28 September 2014 | 2 December 2015 | Karnataka | |
| 43 | Tirath Singh Thakur (born 1952) |
3 December 2015 | 3 January 2017 | Jammu and Kashmir | |
| 44 | Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952) |
4 January 2017 | 27 August 2017 | Punjab and Haryana | |
| 45 | Dipak Misra (born 1953) |
28 August 2017 | 2 October 2018 | Orissa | Ram Nath Kovind |
| 46 | Ranjan Gogoi (born 1954) |
3 October 2018 | 17 November 2019 | Gauhati | |
| 47 | Sharad Arvind Bobde (born 1956) |
18 November 2019[57] | 23 April 2021 | Bombay | |
| 48 | Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana (born 1957) |
24 April 2021 | 26 August 2022 | Andhra Pradesh | |
| 49 | Uday Umesh Lalit (born 1957) |
27 August 2022 | 8 November 2022 | Bar Council | Droupadi Murmu |
| 50 | Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 1959) |
9 November 2022 | 10 November 2024 | Bombay | |
| 51 | Sanjiv Khanna (born 1960) |
11 November 2024 | 13 May 2025 | Delhi | |
| 52 | Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai (born 1960) |
14 May 2025 | 23 November 2025 | Bombay | |
| 53 | Surya Kant (born 1962) |
24 November 2025 | february 2027 | Punjab and Haryana |