All you need to know about Justice SA Bobde, the new CJI

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as the 47th Chief Justice of India and will take oath as the CJI on 18 November. Justice Bobde has had a long career in the apex court, first as a lawyer, then as a Supreme Court judge after his elevation in 2013. Take a look at the key highlights of his early life and career.

New Delhi: Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the second senior-most judge in the apex court, will succeed incumbent Ranjan Gogoi who will demit office on November 17.

Justice Bobde, 63, will take oath as the CJI on November 18, a day after incumbent Ranjan Gogoi demits office.

The 63-year-old judge will have a tenure of over 17 months as the 47th CJI and is due to retire on April 23, 2021.

Career Journey:

Born on April 24, 1956 at Nagpur in Maharashtra, Justice Bobde is the son of Arvind Bobde, former Advocate General of Maharashtra.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts and LLB degrees from Nagpur University, and was enrolled as an advocate of the Bar Council of Maharashtra in 1978.

Justice Bobde's early life and career

Justice Bobde practised law at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court with appearances at Bombay before the Principal Seat and before the Supreme Court for over 21 years. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1998.

Justice Bobde was elevated to Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000, as Additional Judge and sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on October 16, 2012.

He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on April 12, 2013.

Notable judgments:

Justice Bobde was part of a five-judge Constitution bench that delivered a historic judgment in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case.

He headed a three-member in-house committee which gave a clean chit recently to CJI Gogoi on a sexual harassment complaint against him by a former apex court staffer.

He was part of the three-judge bench which in 2015 clarified that no citizen of India without an Aadhaar card can be denied basic services and government services.

He was part of a nine-judge bench of the apex court headed by the then CJI JS Khehar that had held unanimously that the right to privacy was a constitutionally protected right in India.

He headed a two-judge bench that directed the Committee of Administrators (CoA) to demit office paving the way for elected members to run the affairs of the BCCI.