New Delhi, Oct 24, 2024, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI, OCT 24: Justice Sanjiv Khanna was on Thursday appointed the 51st Chief Justice of India. He will take oath on November 11, a day after incumbent Justice D Y Chandrachud demits office on attaining the age of 65. Justice Chandrachud took over as the CJI on November 8, 2022.

Justice Khanna will have a tenure of a little over six months as CJI and would demit office on May 13, 2025.

Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal posted on X: "In exercise of the power conferred by the Constitution of India, Hon'ble President, after consultation with Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India as Chief Justice of India with effect from 11th November, 2024."

A former judge of Delhi High Court -- a position also held by his father Dev Raj Khanna -- he is the ex-officio executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority.

Justice Khanna completed his schooling from Modern School (New Delhi) in 1977. After graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, in 1980, he studied Law at Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

He was enrolled as an Advocate in the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1983. In June 2005, he was elevated as an additional judge of Delhi High Court and made permanent in February 2006. He was elevated as a judge of Supreme Court of India on January 18, 2019.