Justice Ranjan Gogoi sworn in as 46th Chief Justice of India
Justice Ranjan Gogoi sworn in as 46th Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi became the 46th Chief Justice of India, here on Wednesday as he replaced justice Dipak Misra. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to the 63-year-old Justice Gogoi during a brief ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Darbar Hall. Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of a little over 13 months and is set to retire on November 17, 2019. Justice Gogoi has said he wants to focus on providing access to justice to the poor. “Two things are troubling me--pendency of case, which brings in a lot of disrepute to courts, and providing justice to poverty-stricken population,” justice Gogoi said last week in his keynote address in New Delhi at an interactive session on the “Role of Bar and Bench in Social Engineering,” organised by the Youth Bar Association of India. “In civil cases, parties get relief after two or three generations. I have a plan to tackle it and request everyone’s support,” he said on an increasing number of civil cases that add to pendency. Justice Gogoi, who is from Assam, began his legal career in 1978 as an advocate in the Gauhati high court. In 2001, he was appointed as a judge in Gauhati high court. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 2012 from the Punjab and Haryana high court, where he was the chief justice for almost a year. -PTC News
