New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Justice NV Ramana as the 48th Chief Justice of India on Tuesday.
“In exercise of the power conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, The President is pleased to appoint Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, Judge of the Supreme Court, to be the Chief justice of India with effect from April 24,” the Centre said in official notification.
Presently, Justice Ramana is the senior-most Supreme Court judge after the CJI.
Notably, current CJI SA Bobde is due to retire on April 23. Justice Ramana will take charge as the next Chief Justice of India on April 24. He is set to retire on August 26, 2022.
Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana was born on August 27, 1957, in Ponnavaram village of the State of Andhra Pradesh.
He was enrolled as an Advocate at the Bar on February 10, 1983 was appointed as permanent Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000. He also functioned as Acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013.
Over the years, Justice Ramana has been a part of several landmark judgments. Here are landmark judgments he has been a part of:
A Supreme Court bench comprising of Justices NV Ramana and Surya Kant in January this year expounded on the value of a woman’s work at home was no less than that of her office-going husband.
Md. Anwar v. State of NCT of Delhi, 2020: The 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, Surya Kant, and SA Nazeer gave the judgment in order to successfully claim defence of mental unsoundness under Section 84 of IPC, the accused must show by a preponderance of probabilities that he/she suffered from a serious-enough mental disease or infirmity which would affect the individual’s ability to distinguish right from wrong.
He also have been a part of the Bench that constituted a three-member committee to look into demand for allowing 4G mobile internet in Jammu and Kashmir as well as asking the J&K administration to review all orders pertaining to the imposition of curbs on telecom and internet services and put them in public domain.
Jindal Stainless Ltd v. State of Haryana, 2017: A 9-judge bench, by 7:2 majority, upheld the validity of the entry tax imposed by the States on goods imported from other States. T.S. Thakur, A.K. Sikri, S.A. Bobde, Shiva Kirti Singh, N.V. Ramana, R. Banumathi and A.M. Khanwilkar, JJ, giving the majority view said that States are well within their right to design their fiscal legislations.
