Justice Ranjan Gogoi

Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi questions Article 82A(5) of the new bill that grants excessive power to the Election Commission to decide if an Assembly election should be separate from the Lok Sabha polls

Justice Gogoi, who conducted the hearing for 40 days in the historic case, said that reaching to the final verdict was a challenging task for a wide variety of reasons

He succeeds Justice Dipak Misra who demitted office on October 2

Son of former Assam Chief Minister Keshab Chandra Gogoi, he was enrolled as an advocate in 1978

Gogoi would assume office on October 3 after present incumbent Dipak Misra retires a day before