Justice Nuthalapati
Venkata Ramana today took oath as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the oath of office at a brief
ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. He succeeds Justice Sharad
Arvind Bobde who demitted office yesterday.
Justice Ramana will have a tenure of nearly 16 months as the Chief Justice and is due to retire on 26th August next year.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Law Minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad, Judges of Supreme Court and several senior officials
were present at the oath-taking ceremony.
Born on 27th August 1957 in Ponnavaram
village of Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district, Justice Ramana was
enrolled as an advocate in February 1983. He was appointed as a
permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in June 2000 and
functioned as acting Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court from
March to May 2013. Justice Ramana was elevated as the Chief Justice of
Delhi High Court in September, 2013 and was elevated as a Judge of the
Supreme Court on February 2014.
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