NEW DELHI: Three new judges of the Supreme Court will take oath on Tuesday and one of them, Justice J S Khehar, will go on to become the firstSikh Chief Justice of India in the year 2017.
President Pratibha Patil has signed the warrant of appointment for Justice Khehar, chief justice of Karnataka, Justice Ranjana Desai of the Bombay High Court and Gujarat chief justice S J Mukhopadhyay.
Justice Khehar will become the Chief Justice of India on January 4, 2017, on the retirement of Justice T S Thakur, who is expected to take the reins of the top judge's post in September 2014.
Justice Desai, who was part of the Bombay High Court decision to uphold death penalty to 26/11 terror attack convict Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, will become the fifth woman judge of the Supreme Court after Justices Fathima Beevi, Sujata Manohar, Ruma Pal and Gyan Sudha Misra.
Though the apex court got its first woman Judge in 1989, this will be the first time that there will be two sitting women judges in Justices Misra and Desai.
President Pratibha Patil has signed the warrant of appointment for Justice Khehar, chief justice of Karnataka, Justice Ranjana Desai of the Bombay High Court and Gujarat chief justice S J Mukhopadhyay.
Justice Khehar will become the Chief Justice of India on January 4, 2017, on the retirement of Justice T S Thakur, who is expected to take the reins of the top judge's post in September 2014.
Justice Desai, who was part of the Bombay High Court decision to uphold death penalty to 26/11 terror attack convict Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, will become the fifth woman judge of the Supreme Court after Justices Fathima Beevi, Sujata Manohar, Ruma Pal and Gyan Sudha Misra.
Though the apex court got its first woman Judge in 1989, this will be the first time that there will be two sitting women judges in Justices Misra and Desai.
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