00:00Justice Sanjeev Khanna is said to be the 51st Chief Justice of India.
00:04He will serve as the next CJI for just six months before retiring on May 13, 2025.
00:11So who is Justice Khanna, the second most senior judge in India's top court?
00:16Let's understand.
00:17Born on 14th May 1960, Sanjeev Khanna studied in the University of Delhi.
00:22He was enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1983.
00:26He initially practiced at the Tish Hazari District Courts before moving to the High Court of Delhi.
00:32He served for a long time as a senior standing counsel for the Income Tax Department and then
00:38in 2004 he was appointed as a standing counsel for the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
00:45As an additional public prosecutor and as an amicus curiae, Justice Khanna
00:50appeared and argued in several criminal cases at the Delhi High Court.
00:54In 2005, he was elevated as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and then in 2006,
01:00he was made a permanent judge.
01:02While serving in the Delhi High Court, he also served as chairman or judge-in-charge
01:07at Delhi Judicial Academy, Delhi International Arbitration Centre
01:11and the District Court Mediation Centres.
01:14On 18th January 2019, Justice Khanna was elevated as a Supreme Court Judge.
01:21From 17th June 2023 to 25th December 2023,
01:25he was the chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Service Committee.
01:29Justice Khanna is currently the Executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority
01:35and he is a member of the Governing Council of the National Judicial Academy, Bhopal.
01:41Throughout his tenure in the Supreme Court,
01:44Justice Khanna has been a part of landmark cases like
01:48Abrogation of Article 370.
01:50He was part of the bench that upheld the constitutional validity of the abrogation
01:56of Article 370 in 2023.
01:59Then Electoral Bond Scheme.
02:02In 2024, he was part of the bench declaring the Electoral Bond Scheme unconstitutional.
02:08Then Mutual Consent Divorce.
02:10Justice Khanna's bench ruled that the Supreme Court has the authority to grant divorce
02:15on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage under Article 142 of the Indian Constitution.
02:22Then Right to Information.
02:24The landmark RTI judgment in 2019 was authored by Justice Khanna himself.
02:31This affirmed that the office of the Chief Justice is not exempt from RTI requests.
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