Justice Arvind Bobde Appointed as next CJI

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde has been appointed the next ChiefJustice of India by President Ram Nath Kovind. Justice Bobde, who succeeds ChiefJustice Ranjan Gogoi will take oath on November 18.

Bobde is a former chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Courtwho is due to retire on April 23, 2021.

Born on April 24, 1956, at Nagpur, Maharashtra, Justice Bobde studied in the Nagpur University. He joined the Bombay High Court in 2000 as an additional judge. In 2012, he became Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

CJI Gogoi will retire on November 17. According to sources, theChief Justice had gone by the convention to recommend the name of the nextsenior judge as his successor a month before his retirement.

According to the Memorandum of Procedure, which governs theappointment of members of the higher judiciary, the "appointment to the officeof the Chief Justice of India should be of the senior-most judge of the SupremeCourt considered fit to hold the office"? After receiving the Chief Justice'srecommendation, the Law Minister puts it before the Prime Minister, who thencommunicates this to the President.