INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Justice Ranjan Gogoi, 63, is the first person from the northeast to become the Chief Justice of India.New Delhi: Justice Ranjan Gogoi took
oath as the 46th Chief Justice of India
He succeeds Justice Dipak Misra who retired on October 1
Justice Gogoi was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at Rastrapati Bhavan.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, former prime ministers Manmohan Singh and HD Deve
Gowda were among the dignitaries who were present in Rashtapati Bhavan's Darbar Hall for the ceremony.Justice Ranjan Gogoi, 63, is the first
person from the northeast to become the Chief Justice of India
He will have a tenure of a little over 13 months and would retire on November 17, 2019.Justice Gogoi is known to be a soft-spoken but tough
He was among the four judges who, in January, criticised Chief Justice Misra in a rare press conference and accused him of misusing his role
of assigning cases as the Supreme Court's Master of the Roster.Born on November 18, 1954, Justice Gogoi was enrolled as an advocate in 1978
He practised in the Gauhati High Court on constitutional, taxation and company matters
He was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Gauhati High Court on February 28, 2001
He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 9, 2010.He was appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High
Court on February 12, 2011
He was elevated to the Supreme Court on April 23, 2012.
