The 47th Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde was today sworn-in at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath at a ceremony attended by several dignitaries including the Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, L.K. Advani, cabinet ministers, former PM Manmohan Singh, Justice Bobde’s predecessor – retd. CJI Ranjan Gogoi with his wife, and hon’ble judges of the Supreme Court and so on.
Chief Justice Bobde will enjoy an approximate tenure of eighteen months.
The new CJI has been on several important benches including the Ayodhya verdict this month and the Aadhar judgment in 2015.
#JusticeBobde sworn-in as the 47th Chief Justice of India at Rashtrapati Bhavan pic.twitter.com/k1VdMlEf1S
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Born in Nagpur, Chief Justice Bobde earned a law degree from Nagpur University and was enrolled on the Bar Council of Maharashtra in 1978. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1998.
Chief Justice SA Bobde was then appointed as an Additional Judge in the Bombay High Court in March 2000.
He became the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in October 2012, and was elevated to the Supreme Court in April the following year.
–India Legal Bureau