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New CJI
Chief Justice of India
By Kiran Varma - IndianlawInfo
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Table Of Contents
1.Intro
2.About
3.Significant Judgments & Orders
4.2018 Supreme Court of India crisis
5.References
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1. Intro
● Justice Ranjan Gogoi was Thursday appointed as the 46th Chief Justice of
India, according to the law ministry.
● He would assume office on October 3 after present incumbent Dipak Misra
retires a day before.
● Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian judge serving as the 46th and current Chief Justice
of India since 3 October 2018. His father Keshab Chandra Gogoi was a Chief
minister under the Indian National Congress regime in the state of Assam in
the year 1982
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2. About
● Ranjan Gogoi was enrolled at the Bar in 1978 and practised at the Gauhati
High Court of which he was made a Permanent Judge on 28 February 2001.
He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on 9 September
2010 and became its Chief Justice on 12 February 2011. He was elevated as
a Judge of the Supreme Court on 23 April 2012.
● Gogoi completing schooling at Don Bosco in Dibrugarh before moving to
Delhi for pre-university and graduate studies. He graduated from St.
Stephen's College, Delhi with honours in History. Later did post graduation
from Delhi University and Law from Delhi University.
● On 3 October 2018, he took the oath of office of the chief justice of India, thus
succeeding Dipak Misra.
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3. Significant Judgments & Orders
Dismissal of appeal by Reliance Communication
On Coconut Oil Packaging
On Arbitration
On Re-assessment of Income of Amitabh Bachchan for the year 2002-03
Dismissal of advocate Kamini Jaiswal petition seeking a Special Investigation
Team (SIT) probe
On Govindaswamy vs State Of Kerala
On people who are originally inhabitants of the state of Assam.
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2018 Supreme Court of India crisis
On 12 January 2018, Justices Ranjan Gogoi along with Justices J Chelameswar,
M B Lokur, and Kurian Joseph of the Supreme Court of India, for the first time in
the history of the Supreme Court, held a press conference, alleging problems
plaguing the Supreme Court, failure in the justice delivery system and allocation of
cases.
During the press meet, the four judges told journalists that the press conference
was prompted by the issue of allocating to Justice Arun Mishra, the case of the
death of special CBI Judge B.H.Loya.Loya, was a special CBI judge who had died
in December, 2014.
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Reference
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