Justice Ranjan Gogoi sworn in as CJI, succeeds Dipak Misra

Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of a little over 13 months and would retire on November 17, 2019

Justice Ranjan Gogoi (pictured) was sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India on Wednesday after which he did some plain-speaking over urgent mentioning of cases in the Supreme Court (SC) for hearing, saying they will be disallowed till certain parameters are fixed unless someone is set to be “hanged or evicted”.

Gogoi, 63, becomes the first person from the Northeast to reach the top position of the judiciary and will have a tenure of a little over 13 months.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to Justice Gogoi at a brief ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan’s historic Darbar Hall. Justice