Sanjeev Khanna can become the next Chief Justice of Supreme Court, CJI Chandrachud sent proposal to the Center

Sanjeev Khanna is the senior most judge of the Supreme Court. A few days ago, the government had written a letter to the former CJI asking him to send his recommendations under the Memorandum of Procedure. CJI Chandrachud is retiring on November 10.

Justice Sanjeev Khanna can remain the Chief Justice for a tenure of 6 months. He can take over the post of CJI on 11 November 2024. He will remain in his post till May 13 next year. , He has been a former judge of Delhi High Court.

Who is Sanjeev Khanna?

Justice Sanjiv Khanna was born on 14 May 1960. In the year 1977, he completed his schooling from Modern School (New Delhi). After this he graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He studied law at the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.

His father Justice Dev Raj Khanna retired as a judge from the Delhi High Court in 1985 and his mother Saroj Khanna worked as a Hindi professor at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi. Sanjeev Khanna initially started his practice at Tis Hazari Campus, Delhi.

He was a High Court judge for about 14 years.

In the year 1983, he was admitted to the Delhi Bar Council as an advocate. After this, on 24 June 2005, he became Additional Judge of Delhi High Court. After this, permanent judges were made in the year 2006.

Subsequently, he was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 18 January 2019. Apart from Sanjeev Khanna's father, his uncle Hansraj Khanna has also been a judge of the Supreme Court.

Decided more than 90 cases

During his four and a half year tenure in the Supreme Court, he was part of 358 benches and gave judgments in more than 90 cases. Last year he was part of a three-judge bench hearing the issue of reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Along with this, he had given the decision of the Constitution Bench in the Shilpa Shailesh case in the year 2023.