As 47th Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde takes oath at Rashtrapati Bhavan

Chief
Justice of India Sharad A Bobde has been sworn-in by President Ram Nath Kovind
at a simple ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday morning.

Chief
Justice Bobde, the eighth chief justice from Maharashtra, will have a title of
a little over 18 months.

The
Presidential warrant follows the recommendation of the outing Chief Justice on
October 18, who, as per convention, proposed Justice Bobde’s name as his
successor.

Justice
Bobde was part of the five-judge constitution bench hearing the longest running
Ayodhya land dispute case.

He was upraised
to the Supreme Court in April 2012 after serving as chief justice of the Madhya
Pradesh high court. Justice Bobde, who is from Maharashtra, studied law at
Nagpur University.

Justice
Bobde has played a key role at the top court. In May 2019, he headed the
three-judge committee that heard sexual harassment allegations against CJI
Gogoi by a staff member from the CJI’s office in April 2019. The committee
found no substance in the allegations.