NV Ramana has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind and is all set to take charge from April 24th. He will become the 48th Chief Justice of India. His predecessor, SA Bobde, will be retiring on the 23rd, following which he will take charge. His tenure will span until August 2022.
Ramana “has practised in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, central and Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunals and the Supreme Court of India in civil, criminal, constitutional, labour, service and election matters. He has specialised in constitutional, criminal, service and inter-state river laws,” as per his profile on the official website of the Supreme Court. He has been practising as an advocate for nearly four decades.
Ramana had previously worked as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court, and has been on the benches of several landmark cases, and was one of the main forces in cases like the repealing of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir.
Ramana belongs to an agricultural family in the Ponnavaram village of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district and was born on August 27, 1957. He had worked for a leading Telugu daily as a journalist, before starting his practice as a full-fledged advocate.
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