SA Bobde 47th Chief Justice of India

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde was sworn in as the 47th Chief Justice of India (CJI) in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday.

Justice SA Bobde, who succeeds Justice Ranjan Gogoi, was administered oath by President Ram Nath Kovind in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Chief Justice Bobde will have a tenure of around 17 months and will retire on April 23, 2021.
He has been part of several key cases, including the five-judge constitution bench that passed the historic verdict that cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.

Chief Justice Bobde was also part of a nine-judge bench headed by the then Chief Justice JS Khehar which, in a unanimously judgement in August 2017, held that the Right to Privacy was a constitutionally protected fundamental right in India.

He also chaired a three-member in-house panel which gave a clean chit to his predecessor, Chief Justice Gogoi, on a sexual harassment complaint against him by a former court staffer. The committee also included Justices Indira Banerjee and Indu Malhotra.

Chief Justice Bobde belongs to a family of lawyers from Maharashtra; he is the son of eminent senior advocate Arvind Shriniwas Bobde.

Source: NDTV

 

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