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Former Chief Justices

Former Chief Justices of India

Term of Office :
(DoA) 26-01-1950 to (DoR) 06-11-1951

Hon'ble Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania

Term of Office :
(DoA) 26-01-1950 to (DoR) 03-01-1954

Hon'ble Justice M. Patanjali Sastri

Term of Office :
(DoA) 26-01-1950 to (DoR) 22-12-1954

Hon'ble Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan

Term of Office :
(DoA) 26-01-1950 to (DoR) 31-01-1956

Hon'ble Justice Bijan Kumar Mukherjea

Term of Office :
(DoA) 26-01-1950 to (DoR) 30-09-1959

Hon'ble Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das

Term of Office :
(DoA) 12-03-1954 to (DoR) 31-01-1964

Hon'ble Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-01-1957 to (DoR) 15-03-1966

Hon'ble Justice P.B. Gajendragadkar

Term of Office :
(DoA) 04-03-1957 to (DoR) 26-06-1966

Hon'ble Justice A.K. Sarkar

Term of Office :
(DoA) 31-01-1958 to (DoR) 11-04-1967

Hon'ble Justice K. Subba Rao

Term of Office :
(DoA) 11-08-1958 to (DoR) 24-02-1968

Hon'ble Justice K.N. Wanchoo

Term of Office :
(DoA) 12-01-1958 to (DoR) 16-12-1970

Hon'ble Justice M. Hidayatullah

Term of Office :
(DoA) 10-12-1959 to (DoR) 21-01-1971

Hon'ble Justice J.C. Shah

Term of Office :
(DoA) 02-03-1964 to (DoR) 25-04-1973

Hon'ble Justice S.M. Sikri

Term of Office :
(DoA) 08-01-1969 to (DoR) 28-01-1977

Hon'ble Justice A.N. Ray

Term of Office :
(DoA) 12-10-1971 to (DoR) 21-02-1978

Hon'ble Justice M. Hameedullah Beg

Term of Office :
(DoA) 28-08-1972 to (DoR) 11-07-1985

Hon'ble Justice Y.V. Chandrachud

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-07-1973 to (DoR) 20-12-1986

Hon'ble Justice P.N. Bhagwati

Term of Office :
(DoA) 20-02-1978 to (DoR) 18-06-1989

Hon'ble Justice R.S. Pathak

Term of Office :
(DoA) 08-03-1979 to (DoR) 17-12-1989

Hon'ble Justice E.S. Venkataramiah

Term of Office :
(DoA) 15-03-1983 to (DoR) 25-09-1990

Hon'ble Justice Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Term of Office :
(DoA) 15-03-1983 to (DoR) 24-11-1991

Hon'ble Justice Ranganath Misra

Term of Office :
(DoA) 03-10-1986 to (DoR) 12-12-1991

Hon'ble Justice K.N. Singh

Term of Office :
(DoA) 05-01-1987 to (DoR) 17-11-1992

Hon'ble Justice M.H. Kania

Term of Office :
(DoA) 10-05-1987 to (DoR) 11-02-1993

Hon'ble Justice L.M. Sharma

Term of Office :
(DoA) 10-05-1987 to (DoR) 24-10-1994

Hon'ble Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah

Term of Office :
(DoA) 14-12-1988 to (DoR) 24-03-1997

Hon'ble Justice A.M. Ahmadi

Term of Office :
(DoA) 06-03-1989 to (DoR) 17-01-1998

Hon'ble Justice J.S. Verma

Term of Office :
(DoA) 10-06-1989 to (DoR) 09-10-1998

Hon'ble Justice M.M. Punchhi

Term of Office :
(DoA) 18-11-1991 to (DoR) 31-10-2001

Hon'ble Justice A.S. Anand

Term of Office :
(DoA) 07-01-1992 to (DoR) 05-05-2002

Hon'ble Justice S.P. Bharucha

Term of Office :
(DoA) 09-11-1995 to (DoR) 07-11-2002

Hon'ble Justice B.N. Kirpal

Term of Office :
(DoA) 09-11-1995 to (DoR) 18-12-2002

Hon'ble Justice G.B. Patnaik

Term of Office :
(DoA) 21-03-1997 to (DoR) 01-05-2005

Hon'ble Justice V.N. Khare

Term of Office :
(DoA) 25-09-1997 to (DoR) 31-05-2004

Hon'ble Justice S. Rajendra Babu

Term of Office :
(DoA) 12-09-1998 to (DoR) 31-10-2005

Hon'ble Justice R.C. Lahoti

Term of Office :
(DoA) 28-01-2002 to (DoR) 13-01-2007

Hon'ble Justice Y.K. Sabharwal

Term of Office :
(DoA) 08-08-2000 to (DoR) 12-05-2010

Hon'ble Justice K.G. Balakrishnan

Term of Office :
(DoA) 18-12-2003 to (DoR) 28-09-2012

Hon'ble Justice S.H. Kapadia

Term of Office :
(DoA) 09-09-2005 to (DoR) 18-07-2013

Hon'ble Justice Altamas Kabir

Term of Office :
(DoA) 21-08-2007 to (DoR) 26-04-2014

Hon'ble Justice P. Sathasivam

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-12-2008 to (DoR) 27-09-2014

Hon'ble Justice R. M. Lodha

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-12-2008 to (DoR) 02-12-2015

Hon'ble Justice H.L. Dattu

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-11-2009 to (DoR) 03-01-2017

Hon'ble Justice T.S. Thakur

Term of Office :
(DoA) 04-01-2017 to (DoR) 27-08-2017

Hon'ble Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar

Term of Office :
(DoA) 10-10-2011 to (DoR) 02-10-2018

Hon'ble Justice Dipak Mishra

Term of Office :
(DoA) 23-04-2012 to (DoR) 17-11-2019

Hon'ble Justice Ranjan Gogoi

Term of Office :
(DoA) 12-04-2013 to (DoR) 23-04-2021

Hon'ble Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde

Term of Office :
(DoA) 17-02-2014 to (DoR) 26-08-2022

Hon'ble Justice N.V. Ramana

Term of Office :
(DoA) 13-08-2014 to (DoR) 08-11-2022

Hon'ble Justice Uday Umesh Lalit

(DoB.) : 11-11-1959

Term of Office :
(DoA) 13-05-2016 to (DoR) 10-11-2024

Appointed as The Chief Justice of India on : 09-11-2022

Hon'ble Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud

(DoB.) : 14-05-1960

Term of Office :
(DoA) 18-01-2019 to (DoR) 13-05-2025

Appointed as The Chief Justice of India on : 11-11-2024

Hon'ble Justice Sanjiv Khanna