{"id":53985,"date":"2018-09-14T17:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=53985"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T12:10:53","slug":"justice-ranjan-gogoi-appointed-new-chief-justice-of-india-to-take-office-on-oct-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/justice-ranjan-gogoi-appointed-new-chief-justice-of-india-to-take-office-on-oct-3","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ranjan Gogoi appointed new Chief Justice of India, To Take Office On Oct 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" data-attachment-id=\"53986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/justice-ranjan-gogoi-appointed-new-chief-justice-of-india-to-take-office-on-oct-3\/ranjan-gogoi-742x435\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?fit=742%2C435&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"742,435\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ranjan-Gogoi-742&amp;#215;435\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?fit=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?fit=640%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?resize=640%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?resize=742%2C435&amp;ssl=1 742w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?resize=150%2C88&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Ranjan-Gogoi-742x435.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW DELHI:\u00a0President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India.\u00a0He will take office on October 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the convention, the senior most judge of the Supreme Court is appointed by the CJI, and Justice Gogoi by virtue of his seniority, was next in line.\u00a0As the 46th Chief Justice of India, Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of about 13 months, till November 17, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Kovind signed warrants of appointment of Justice Gogoi following which a notification announcing his appointment was issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as a soft-spoken but tough, Justice Gogoi was among the four senior-most Supreme Court judges who had in January 2018 held a rare press conference and criticized Chief Justice Misra accusing him of misusing his authority in allotment of cases\u00a0as the Supreme Court&#8217;s Master of the Roster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 12 this year, Justice Gogoi and three colleagues \u2014 Justices J Chelameswar (since retired), Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph \u2014 raised questions on the CJI\u2019s allocation of cases to benches in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born on November 18, 1954, justice Gogoi was enrolled as an advocate in 1978. 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