Justice NV Ramana of Andhra Pradesh State will be heading the Supreme Court as he was sworn in as 48th Chief Justice of India on Saturday.
President Ramnath Kovind administered NV Ranana’s oath of office and secrecy as the 48th CJI at a simple program in Rashtrapati Nilayam.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and cabinet ministers and officials attended.
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Kovind gave his assent elevating Ramnaa as the 48th CJI of the apex court of India. He succeeds SA Bobde who was retired on April 23.
Ramana will head the supreme court for 16 months till August 26 in 2022 according to information. President Ramnath Kovind gave his assent to SA Bobde’s recommendation elevating NV Ramana to be the 48th CJI.
NV Ramana is the second Telugu legal luminary to head the SC after Koka Subba Rao who held that position from June 30, 1966, to April 11, 1967, according to information.
Earlier, the Union law ministry sent a proposal in this regard and the president’s office approved the same. Ramnath Kovind gave orders appointing Justice NV Ranana as the CJI to take over on April 24. A related notification was also released by the law ministry.
Hailing from an agricultural family in Ponnavaram village of Krishna district. he was born to Ganapathy Rao and Sarojini on August 27, 1957. He got a law degree from Nagarjuna University in 1982 after a BSc degree from RVVN College in Amaravathi and schooling from Kanchikacharla.
Began his career on February 10, 1883, after taking bar council membership Ramana is an expert in civil, criminal cases and successfully held various positions at the state and central level. He also contributed to special courts to deal with Nirbhaya cases.
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He took steps to increase basic facilities and infrastructure in the courts and began e-filing in Delhi high court. Ramana became justice to Supreme Court in 2014 after heading Delhi High Court as the Chief Justice. .Justice Ramana was appointed as the justice of AP HC on June 27, 2000, and then elevated as the interim Chief Justice of the same court.
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