46th chief justice of India

• The President has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India
• Justice Gogoi will assume office on October 3. He is the first Chief Justice of India from Assam.
• The warrant of appointment comes less than 10 days after incumbent Chief Justice Dipak Misra recommended Justice Gogoi as his successor. The Press Information Bureau released a statement about the appointment.

13-month tenure

• As Chief Justice of India, Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of about 13 months till hisretirement on November 17, 2019.
• Chief Justice Misra followed convention by recommending the next seniormost Supreme Court judge as his successor. Justice Gogoi, born on November 18, 1954, joined the Bar in 1978 and practised mainly in the Gauhati
• High Court. He was appointed a permanent judge of the High Court in February 2001. He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2010 and appointed its Chief Justice in 2011
• . He was elevated to the Supreme Court on April 23, 2012. Justice Gogoi is the son of Keshab Chandra Gogoi, a former Assam Chief Minister during the Congress regime in 1982. Justice Gogoi was one of the four seniormost Supreme Court judges who held a press conference on January 12, 2018 bringing up the issue of selective assignmentof sensitive cases by recent CJIs to certain judges in the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Misra subsequently published a subjectwise
• The President has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India.
• Justice Gogoi will assume office on October 3. He is the first Chief Justice of India from Assam. The warrant of appointment comes less than 10 days after incumbent Chief Justice Dipak Misra recommended Justice Gogoi as his successor. The Press Information Bureau released a statement about the appointment.