New Delhi: Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai has been sworn in as the 52nd Chief Justice of India (CJI). The oath of office was administered by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Justice B.R. Gavai succeeds Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who retired from the position.
The event was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, J.P. Nadda, S. Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal, and Arjun Ram Meghwal, as well as Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, former Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna, and former President Ram Nath Kovind.
Justice B.R. Gavai is the second Dalit and the first Buddhist Chief Justice of India after Justice K.G. Balakrishnan. Hailing from Amravati, Maharashtra, he began his judicial career as a judge of the Bombay High Court in 2023 and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2019. He is the son of former Kerala Governor R.S. Gavai.
