Justice Surya Kant will become the 53rd Chief Justice of India, know who he is:

When the country’s current Chief Justice (CJI) D.Y. When Chandrachud retires in November 2025, Justice Surya Kant will take over his chair. He will become the 52nd Chief Justice of India. His tenure will be about one year and four months and he will retire in February 2027 at the age of 65.

Justice Surya Kant’s name is today held with great respect in the judicial corridors of the country, but his journey started from a middle-class family in Hisar district of Haryana. Let us know about his journey and those big decisions due to which he always remained in the news.

From Pegasus espionage to PM’s security, it played an important role in these big decisions.

During his tenure, Justice Surya Kant has been a part of many historic and sensitive cases affecting the country. Some of his big and bold decisions are as follows:

• Sedition law banned: Justice Surya Kant was part of the bench which, while giving a historic verdict, had banned the filing of new FIRs under the Sedition Act. The bench had directed that until the government reviews this law, it will not be used.
• Pegasus espionage case: When allegations of illegal espionage were made through Pegasus spyware, Justice Surya Kant’s bench itself constituted an independent committee of cyber experts to investigate it.
• Lapse in PM Modi’s security: Justice Surya Kant’s bench had also formed a committee under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court judge Indu Malhotra to investigate the security lapses during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab in 2022.
• Article 370 decision: He was also included in the historic bench that heard the petitions challenging the Central Government’s decision to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.
• One Rank-One Pension (OROP): He had upheld the constitutional validity of the ‘One Rank-One Pension’ scheme for the defense forces.
• Aligarh Muslim University (AMU): He was also part of the seven-judge bench that was reconsidering the old 1967 decision on AMU’s minority status, opening the way for a new debate on the issue.

Apart from these, she has also played an important role in many important matters ranging from the voter list dispute of Bihar to granting permanent commission to women officers in the Army.