TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Justice Dipak Mishra was on Monday sworn in as the 45th Chief Justice of India. Justice Misra, 64, assumes office following the retirement of Justice J S Khehar on Sunday.
Justice Misra will remain in office till October 2, 2018. As per the established practice, Justice Khehar had named Misra as the next CJI last month. At a brief ceremony in the Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan, President Ramnath Kovind administered the oath of office to Mishra.
His tenure will be a busy one, for as the CJI he will be part of benches deciding on crucial issues such as, apart from the Ayodhya title case, the Cauvery waters dispute, SEBI-Sahara payment row, BCCI reforms, the Panama Paper leaks and on privacy policy.
The 63-year-old Justice has been a part of several key verdicts, such as sending Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon and four men who raped and killed a physiotherapy intern to the gallows.
Justice Misra also headed a three-judge bench which upheld the Delhi High Court’s verdict sentencing to death the four convicts of the sensational December 16, 2012, gangrape-cum-murder case of Delhi.
