SA Bobde, the Chief Justice of India, has recommended Justice NV Ramana as his replacement when he retires next month. Chief Justice Bobde will resign on April 23rd. According to news agency PTI, which cited sources, the government requested him last week to nominate his replacement.
On Friday, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reportedly sent a letter to Justice Bobde, demanding his recommendation for the new Chief Justice of the nation.
After Chief Justice Bobde, Justice NV Ramana is the Supreme Court’s most senior judge.
Justice Ramana, who was born on August 27, 1957, will serve as the country’s highest judge for a year and four months, until August 26, 2022.
In June 2000, the judge, who comes from an agricultural family in Andhra Pradesh, was appointed as a permanent judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Until the time being named to the Supreme Court in February 2014, he was Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
He was also a member of the bench that ordered the suspension of Internet access in the state of Jammu and Kashmir should be checked immediately. He was also a member of the panel of judges that ruled that the Chief Justice’s office is subject to the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
According to the procedures for appointing members of the higher judiciary, “appointment to the office of the Chief Justice of India should be of the senior-most Supreme Court judge deemed eligible to hold the office.”
In November 2019, Justice Bobde was taken the oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India, replacing Justice (retired) Ranjan Gogoi. He was also a member of many pivotal and controversial cases, including the five-judge constitution bench that issued the landmark decision allowing the building of a Ram Temple on the contested site in Ayodhya.
