Justice TS Thakur sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India

Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at an elegant function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice Thakur has been related to a number of vital judgments.

Justice Thakur succeeds Justice H.L. Dattu, who demitted office yesterday. He is due to retire on 4 Jan 2017 will have a tenure of over a year. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Delhi Governor Najeeb Jung, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attended the function. A bench headed by Justice Thakur is monitoring cleaning of Ganga project and ongoing probe in chit fund scam.

Born on January 4, 1952, Justice Thakur began his profession as a Civil, Criminal, Constitutional and Taxation lawyer within the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

Elected as President of the Bar Association in 1986, he was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1990.

A litigator at heart, Justice Thakur practised largely out of the Jammu and Kashmir high court. “Chief justices and judges of the Supreme Court, while selecting people for elevation, must go strictly by the beats of their conscience rather than any consideration”, he added.

Elevated to the Supreme Court on November 17, 2009, Justice Thakur has the credit of taking steps to clean up the cricket administration when he delivered the verdict in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting scandal in January this year.