S. Thakur appointed new Chief Justice of India

Justice T.S. Thakur has been named as the Chief Justice of India.

In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint (i) Shri Nishitendu Chaudhury.

Under the collegium system, a group of five seniormost Supreme Court judges appoints other judges to the higher judiciary-the high courts and the Supreme Court.

Had the NJAC law been upheld in whole by the Bench, it would have been the six-member Commission, and not the CJI, who would have recommended the next Chief Justice of India. CJI Dattu on Wednesday commenced the process for his appointment by forwarding the recommendation to the Union government. The Bench has fixed November 5 to debate and decide on the suggestions it received from various quarters to better the Collegium style of functioning. He will retire on January 3, 2017. The judgment on January 22, 2015 demanded institutional integrity from the BCCI and classified the Board’s administration of cricket in India as a public function. He can also be listening to the multi-crore rupee NRHM rip-off, by which ex-UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha can also be an accused in addition to different politicians and bureaucrats. Recently, he headed the two-judge bench which refused to entertain a plea filed against a Bombay high court order staying the decision to ban sale of meat in Mumbai during a Jain festival.

As CJI, Justice Thakur will also head the next collegium of the Supreme Court.

He was elevated as Judge of Supreme Court and assumed charge on 17th November, 2009.

He will have a tenure of 13 months as the Chief Justice with effect from December 3, 2015.

He was elected as President of the Bar Association in 1986 and was designated as a Senior counsel by the High Court in the year 1990.

Justice Thakur was appointed as appearing Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on April 9, 2008 and on August eleven, 2008, he took over as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.