The Nature of Judicial Power: Chief Justice of India No. 58

Posted on by Rudrajyoti Nath Ray
Hon’ble High CourtHon’ble Chief JusticeDate of Birth  
CalcuttaPrakash Shrivastava31/03/1961
BombayDipankar Datta09/02/1965
MadrasMunishwar Nath Bhandari13/09/1960
AllahabadRajesh Bindal16/04/1961
KarnatakaAlok Aradhe [Acting CJ]13/04/1964
PatnaSanjay Karol23/08/1961  
J&KPankaj Mithal17/06/1961  
Madhya PradeshRavi Malimath25/05/1962
Punjab and HaryanaRavi Shanker Jha14/10/1961
GauhatiR.M. Chhaya12/01/1961
OrissaS. Muralidhar08/08/1961
RajasthanS.S. Shinde02/08/1960
KeralaS. Manikumar24/04/1961
GujaratAravind Kumar14/07/1962
DelhiSatish Chandra Sharma30/11/1961
Himachal PradeshAmjad Ahtesham Sayed21/01/1961
SikkimBiswanath Somadder15/12/1963
ChhattisgarhArup Kumar Goswami11/03/1961
UttarakhandVipin Sanghi27/10/1961
JharkhandRavi Ranjan20/12/1960
MeghalayaSanjib Banerjee02/11/1961
ManipurP.V. Sanjay Kumar14/08/1963
TripuraIndrajit Mahanty11/11/1960
Andhra PradeshPrashant Mishra29/08/1964
TelenganaUjjal Bhuyan02/08/1964

If all in order, J.B. Pardiwala J shall retire as Chief Justice of India No. 57 on 11/08/2030. Amongst present CJs of HCs, none can be CJI No. 58 after Pardiwala J. CJs of Madras, Rajashtan, Jharkhand and Tripura shall retire soon. Senior-Most in those HCs after respective CJs [M. Duraiswamy J (22/09/1960); Manindra Mohan Shrivastava J (06.03.1964); Aparesh Kumar Singh J (07.07.1965); T. Amarnath Goud J (01.03.1965)] won’t be a CJI too.

Judge

Senior-Most Judge in each HC, as on 24.07.2022, who if elevated to SC can eventually be CJI No. 58:

  1. Calcutta, Justice Joymalya Bagchi, 03.10.1966
  2. Bombay, Justice Ravindra V. Ghuge, 09.07.1966  
  3. Madras, Justice M. Sundar, 19.07.1966 
  4. Allahabad, Justice Sunita Agarwal, 30.04.1966  
  5. Karnataka, Justice Shankar Ganapathi Pandit, 16.11.1965 
  6. Patna, Justice Ashutosh Kumar, 01.10.1966
  7. J&K, Justice Sanjeev Kumar, 08.04.1966
  8. Madhya Pradesh, Justice Atul Sreedharan, 24.05.1966
  9. Punjab and Haryana, Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawala, 01.11.1965
  10. Gauhati, Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak, 28.08.1965
  11. Orissa, Justice Arindam Sinha, 22.09.1965
  12. Rajasthan, Justice Arun Bhansali, 15.10.1967
  13. Kerala, Justice A. Muhamed Mustaque, 01.06.1967
  14. Gujarat, Justice Vipul M. Pancholi, 28.05.1968
  15. Delhi, Justice Vibhu Bakhru, 02.11.1966   
  16. Himachal Pradesh, Justice Vivek Singh Thakur, 16.04.1966  
  17. Sikkim, Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan, 19.10.1966  
  18. Chhattisgarh, Justice P. Sam Koshy, 30.04.1967  
  19. Uttarakhand, Justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari, 19.09.1965 
  20. Jharkhand, Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad, 20.06.1967 
  21. Meghalaya, Justice Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew, 24.12.1966
  22. Manipur, Justice Ahanthem Bimol Singh, 01.02.1966
  23. Tripura – – – – –
  24. Andhra Pradesh, Justice Ravi Nath Tilhari, 09.02.1969
  25. Telengana, Justice A. Abhishek Reddy, 07.11.1967
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