07/04/2021
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As our present the Chief Justice of India Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde will retire on 23 April 2021, today, His Excellency Ram Nath Kovind, the Honโble President of India has appointed Honโble Mr. Justice NUTHALAPATI VENKATA RAMANA as the next Chief Justice of India by accepting the recommendation made by his predecessor SA Bobde. Here are few lesser known facts about him:-
1. He will serve as the 48th Chief Justice of India for 16 months from 24 April 2021 to 26 August 2022. It will be the longest tenure for a CJI in nearly a decade and he will complete eight years and six months at the time of his superannuation in the Supreme Court.
2. He will be the second person (2nd) from the State of Andhra Pradesh to be the Chief Justice of India (CJI). Earlier, Justice Koka S***a Rao from Rajamahendravaram served as the Chief Justice of India and was the ninth (9th) Chief Justice of India (from 1966-1967) and he has also served as the first (1st) Chief Justice of the earstwhile High Court of Andhra Pradesh. However, Justice Ramana will be the first Judge from the Andhra Pradesh High Court (as a parent High Court) to serve as the CJI.
3. He has been a part of 403 ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ till date and has already authored 157 ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ with more than 110 citations.
4. The E-Lok Adalat of Rajasthan State Legal Service Authority (RSLSA) was set up under the guidance of the NALSA during the Chairmanship of Justice Ramana and the same has took up more than 45,000 cases out of which about 33,476 were settled.
5. He took birth in a farmerโs family on August 27, 1957 in Ponnavaram Village, Krishna District of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
6. In 1975, he was asked by his father to move away from home and stay with his maternal aunt as the then Government was planning to proclaim National Emergency in the country and he was a student leader during that time and his father was convinced that he will be arrested,. He lost an academic year too during his days as a student activist. When he left home, he only had ๐๐ฌ. 10 with him.
7. He worked as a journalist for a regional newspaper for two years before enrolling as an advocate on 10 February 1983.
8. He practiced in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunals and the Supreme Court of India and has served as Additional Standing Counsel for Central Government, Standing Counsel for Railways in the Central Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad and Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh.
9. He was appointed as
:- a permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000.
:- Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013.
:- Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on September 02, 2013.
:- a Judge of Supreme Court within a year on 17 February 2014.
:- Chairman of Supreme Court Legal Services Committee from March 7, 019 to November 26, 2019.
:- Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) since November 27, 2019.
:- Member of the General Council of the National Law School of Indian University, Bangalore.
:- Chairman of the Library Committee in Indian Law Institute, Delhi.
:- President of Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy.
10. As a Supreme Court Judge, Justice Ramana has been part of several landmark judgments including
-fast-tracking of trials in cases against legislators,
-restrictions imposed in J & K when Article 370 of the Constitution was repealed,
-demand of allowing 4G mobile internet in J & K,
-bringing the Chief Justice of Indiaโs office within the bounds of the Right to Information (RTI),
-Aircel Maxis deal case in 2017,
-Arunachal Pradesh Presidentโs Rule case,
-CJI impeachment case, constitutionality of Part XIV of the Finance Act, 2017 - pertaining to tribunals,
-Constitutionality of Article 35A,
-Criminalisation of Triple Talaq,
-Curative petition of Nirbhaya case convicts,
-Karnataka Assembly case,
-MLA Bribery case,
-Home Makers are no less than working husbands and
-grant of bail in a stringent law like The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
