Chief Justices of India
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Appointed as The Chief Justice of India on 28.08.2017.
He is due to retire from Supreme Court on October 2, 2018.
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Sl. No. |
Name
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From
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To
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1 | Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania. | 26-01-1950 | 06-11-1951* |
2 | Justice M. Patanjali Sastri | 07-11-1951 | 03-01-1954 |
3 | Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan | 04-01-1954 | 22-12-1954 |
4 | Justice Bijan Kumar Mukharjee | 23-12-1954 | 31-01-1956** |
5 | Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das | 01-02-1956 | 30-09-1959 |
6 | Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha | 01-10-1959 | 31-01-1964 |
7 | Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar | 01-02-1964 | 15-03-1966 |
8 | Justice A. K. Sarkar | 16-03-1966 | 29-06-1966 |
9 | Justice K. Subba Rao | 30-06-1966 | 11-04-1967** |
10 | Justice K. N. Wanchoo | 12-04-1967 | 24-02-1968 |
11 | Justice M. Hidayatullah | 25-02-1968 | 16-12-1970 |
12 | Justice J. C. Shah | 17-12-1970 | 21-01-1971 |
13 | Justice S. M. Sikri | 22-01-1971 | 25-04-1973 |
14 | Justice A. N. Ray | 26-04-1973 | 28-01-1977 |
15 | Justice M. Hameedullah Beq | 29-01-1977 | 21-02-1978 |
16 | Justice Y. V. Chandrachud | 22-02-1978 | 11-07-1985 |
17 | Justice P. N. Bhagwati | 12-07-1985 | 20-12-1986 |
18 | Justice R. S. Pathak | 21-12-1986 | 18-06-1989** |
19 | Justice E. S. Venkataramiah | 19-06-1989 | 17-12-1989 |
20 | Justice Sabyasachi Mukharjee | 18-12-1989 | 25-09-1990* |
21 | Justice Ranganath Misra | 25-09-1990 | 24-11-1991 |
22 | Justice K. N. Singh | 25-11-1991 | 12-12-1991 |
23 | Justice M. H. Kania | 13-12-1991 | 17-11-1992 |
24 | Justice L. M. Sharma | 18-11-1992 | 11-02-1993 |
25 | Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah | 12-02-1993 | 24-10-1994 |
26 | Justice A. M. Ahmadi | 25-10-1994 | 24-03-1997 |
27 | Justice J. S. Verma | 25-03-1997 | 17-01-1998 |
28 | Justice M. M. Punchhi | 18-01-1998 | 09-10-1998 |
29 | Justice A. S. Anand | 10-10-1998 | 31-10-2001 |
30 | Justice S. P. Bharucha | 01-11-2001 | 05-05-2002 |
31 | Justice B. N. Kirpal | 06-05-2002 | 07-11-2002 |
32 | Justice G. B. Pattanaik | 08-11-2002 | 18-12-2002 |
33 | Justice V. N. Khare | 19-12-2002 | 01-05-2004 |
34 | Justice S. Rajendra Babu | 02-05-2004 | 31-05-2004 |
35 | Justice R. C. Lahoti | 01-06-2004 | 31-10-2005 |
36 | Justice Y. K. Sabharwal | 01-11-2005 | 13-01-2007 |
37 | Justice K. G. Balakrishnan | 14-01-2007 | 11-05-2010 |
38 | Justice S. H. Kapadia | 12-05-2010 | 28-09-2012 |
39 | Justice Altamas Kabir | 29-09-2012 | 18-07-2013 |
40 | Justice P. Sathasivam | 19-07-2013 | 26-04-2014 |
41 | Justice R. M. Lodha | 27-04-2014 | 27-09-2014 |
42 | Justice H. L. Dattu | 28-09-2014 | 02-12-2015 |
43. | Justice T. S. Thakur | 03-12-2015 | 03-01-2017 |
44. | Justice Dipak Misra | 28-08-2017 | Till Now |
** Date of Resignation
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