Chief Justice of India

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The Chief Justice of India is the highest position obtainable by a judge in India.

The chief justice of the Supreme Court is appointed on the basis of seniority by the President of India.The nominees for chief justice of the supreme court must have an experience of being judge of highcourt for at least 5 years, or be a lawyer for 10 years in the high court. Appointments of other judges to the Supreme Court are made by the President in consultation with the Chief Justice.

The Chief Justice occupies courtroom no 1 of the Supreme Court of India. Amongst his/her responsibilities are the fixing of benches.

Justice K G Balakrishnan is the current Chief Justice of India from January 14, 2007, he succeded Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal.

This is a list of former Chief Justices of Supreme Court of India. The current Chief Justice of India is K. G. Balakrishnan (January 15, 2007 - May 12, 2010).

  1. H. J. Kania
  2. M. P. Sastri
  3. Mehr Chand Mahajan
  4. B. K. Mukherjea
  5. S. R. Das
  6. B. P. Sinha
  7. P. B. Gajendragadkar
  8. A. K. Sarkar
  9. K. Subba Rao
  10. K. N. Wanchoo
  11. M. Hidayatullah
  12. J. C. Shah
  13. S. M. Sikri
  14. A. N. Ray
  15. Mirza Hameedullah Beg
  16. Y. V. Chandrachud
  17. P. N. Bhagwati
  18. R. S. Pathak
  19. E. S. Venkataramiah
  20. S. Mukharji
  21. Ranganath Misra
  22. K. N. Singh
  23. M. H. Kania
  24. L. M. Sharma
  25. M. N. Venkatachaliah
  26. A. M. Ahmadi
  27. J. S. Verma
  28. M. M. Punchhi
  29. A. S. Anand
  30. S. P. Bharucha
  31. B. N. Kirpal
  32. G. B. Pattanaik
  33. V. N. Khare
  34. Rajendra Babu
  35. R. C. Lahoti
  36. Y. K. Sabharwal

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