Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde will take oath as the next Chief Justice of India, today

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde would take the oath as the
47th Chief Justice of India on Monday. Justice Bobde would be administered the
oath of office of Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind at
Rastrapati Bhavan at 9:30 am.

Outgoing Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had on October 18
recommended Justice SA Bobde, the second senior-most judge of the apex court,
as his successor.

Justice SA Bobde will serve as CJI for nearly 18 months
and retire on April 23, 2021.

Justice Bobde, 63, would prefer a conservative approach
on the issue of disclosing the Collegium’s entire deliberations on the
rejection of names for appointment in the higher judiciary. The CJI-designate
had said that people’s reputation cannot be sacrificed just to satisfy the
desire of citizens to know.

Born in Nagpur on April 24, 1956, Justice Bobde completed
his graduation and obtained a law degree from Nagpur University. He was
enrolled on the roll of the Bar Council of Maharashtra in 1978 and was
designated as Senior Advocate in 1998.

His career as judge began on March 29, 2000, when he was
appointed as Additional Judge in the Bombay High Court, and he rose to become
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. He was also a part of the five-judge bench which heard the Ayodhya
land dispute case.