List of Chief Justices in India

The Chief Justice of India is the highest judge of the Supreme Court of India. The Chief Justices of India holds the highest position that a judge can hold in the Indian judiciary. The major responsibility of the Chief Justice of Indi is to monitor the administrative functions of the Supreme Court. He is also the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Altamas Kabir is the current chief justice of India.

The administrative functions of the Chief Justice of India are:

• It is the duty of the Chief Justice to allocate of matters to the other judges of the Supreme Court of India
• He has to maintain the roster
• He has to appoint court officials

CHIEF JUSTICES OF INDIA

S.No	Name	Period of office		Length of term	Bar
1	H. J. Kania	18289	November 6, 1951‡	649 days	Bombay High Court
2	M. Patanjali Sastri	18939	19727	788 days	Madras High Court
3	Mehr Chand Mahajan	19728	20080	352 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
4	B. K. Mukherjee	20081	January 31, 1956‡‡	404 days	Calcutta High Court
5	Sudhi Ranjan Das	20486	21823	1,337 days	Calcutta High Court
6	Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	21824	23407	1,583 days	Patna High Court
7	P. B. Gajendragadkar	23408	24181	773 days	Bombay High Court
8	Amal Kumar Sarkar	24182	24287	105 days	Calcutta High Court
9	Koka Subba Rao	24288	April 11, 1967‡‡	285 days	Madras High Court
10	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	24574	24892	318 days	Allahabad High Court
11	Mohammad Hidayatullah	24893	25918	1,025 days	Bombay High Court
12	Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	25919	25954	35 days	Bombay High Court
13	Sarv Mittra Sikri	25955	26779	824 days	Lahore High Court
14	Ajit Nath Ray	26780	28152	1,372 days	Calcutta High Court
15	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	28153	28542	389 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
16	Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud	28543	31239	2,696 days	Bombay High Court
17	P. N. Bhagwati	31240	31766	526 days	Gujarat High Court
18	R. S. Pathak	31767	June 18, 1989‡‡	940 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
19	E. S. Venkataramiah	32678	32859	181 days	Karnataka High Court
20	Sabyasachi Mukherjee	32860	September 25, 1990‡	281 days	Calcutta High Court
21	Ranganath Misra	33142	33566	424 days
22	Kamal Narain Singh	33567	33584	17 days	Allahabad High Court
23	M. H. Kania	33585	33925	340 days	Bombay High Court
24	Lalit Mohan Sharma	33926	34011	85 days
25	M. N. Venkatachaliah	34012	34631	619 days	Karnataka High Court
26	Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	34632	35513	881 days	Karnataka High Court
27	Jagdish Sharan Verma	35514	35812	298 days	Madhya Pradesh High Court
28	Madan Mohan Punchhi	35813	36077	264 days	Punjab and Haryana High Court
29	Adarsh Sein Anand	36078	36902	824 days	Madras High Court Jammu and Kashmir High Court
30	Sam Piroj Bharucha	36902	37382	480 days	Karnataka High Court
31	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	37382	37568	186 days	Gujarat High Court
32	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	37568	37609	41 days	Patna High Court
33	V. N. Khare	37609	38109	500 days	Calcutta High Court
34	S. Rajendra Babu	38109	38139	30 days	Karnataka High Court
35	Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	38139	38657	518 days	Delhi High Court
36	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	38657	39095	438 days	Bombay High Court
37	K. G. Balakrishnan	39095	40309	1,214 days	Kerala High Court
38	S. H. Kapadia	40310	41180	870 days	Bombay High Court
39	Altamas Kabir	41181	Incumbent	12 days	Calcutta High Court

Last Updated on 10/12/2012

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