Justice BR Gavai appointed next Chief Justice of India, oath on May 14
NEW DELHI: Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai on Tuesday was appointed 52nd
(CJI). He'll take the oath on May 14 to succeed the incumbent
CJI Sanjiv Khanna
.
Justice Gavai is slated to take oath on May 14 as the 52nd CJI.
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President
will administer the BR Gavai oath of office.
Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai was born on November 24, 1960, in Amravati. He joined the Bar on March 16, 1985.
Justice BR Gavai
became a permanent judge of the high court on November 12, 2005. Since then, he has been part of several Constitution Benches of the Supreme Court that delivered landmark judgments. He was a member of the five-judge bench that unanimously upheld the Centre's 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Justice Gavai also played a key role in another five-judge bench that struck down the
electoral bonds scheme
used for political funding. He was part of the bench that, by a 4:1 majority, upheld the Centre's
2016 demonetisation
of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes.
In another major verdict, Justice Gavai was on a seven-judge Constitution Bench that ruled, by a 6:1 majority, that states have the constitutional authority to create sub-classifications within Scheduled Castes to provide targeted reservation for the most backward among them.
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