Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today (October 18, 2019) has sent a letter to the Ministry of Law and Justice recommending Justice S.A. Bobde, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, as his successor.
Justice Gogoi, who was sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India on October 3, 2018, will demit the office on November 17, 2019.
Going by the tradition of recommending the name of the next senior judge, CJI Gogoi recommended Justice Bobde’s name who will have a tenure of about 18 months.
Justice Bobde enrolled with the Bar Council of Maharashtra in 1978 after obtaining his LLB degree from Nagpur University. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1998 and was subsequently elevated as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in March, 2000. In April, 2013, he was elevated as a Judge of Supreme Court. He will retire on April 23, 2021.
As per the process, after receiving the CJI’s recommendation, the law minister will now put it before the Prime Minister who advises the President on the matter.
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Women Should Demand 50% Reservation in the Judiciary, Not as Charity But as a Matter of Right: CJI Ramana
Legal Insiders
Sep 29, 2021
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Drawing on Karl Marx's ideas, Chief Justice N.V. Ramana stated that women all over the world must band together because they have nothing to lose but their chains. He observed that women must "shout with rage and demand 50% reservation," not out of charity, but as a matter of right. Recognizing thousands of years of female repression, he further stated that it is high time to recognise and achieve this goal in the Supreme Courts and other subordinate courts.On September 26, 2021, he spoke...
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