Justice H L Dattu appointed next CJI
6 Sept 2014 5:53 AM IST
Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was on Friday appointed as the next Chief Justice of India and will have a tenure of 14 months. The President is pleased to appoint Justice Dattu as CJI with effect from September 28, 2014, the Law Ministry announced here. The present incumbent, Justice R M Lodha retires on 27 September. The seniormost judge of the Supreme Court after the CJI, Justice Dattu (63) has been heading the bench monitoring investigations into the 2G spectrum scam.
Justice Dattu, who will take charge as the 42nd CJI, retires on 2 December, 2015. ‘I will request for blessing of all citizens of this country to give me courage and confidence to take this institution of mine to the highest stride,’ he had said on Wednesday when the file relating to his appointment reached the Prime Minister’s Office. Justice Dattu, whose father was a school teacher, said, ‘it will be the happiest day of his life to head the institution of judiciary’ and ‘at the end of the day I can only say that I will do my best to improve the institution’. ‘Mine is the best institution in the world,’ he added.
However, the judge, who started his legal profession from Karnataka, refused to comment on the issue of latest controversy surrounding the attempt to scrap the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judiciary. He joined the Supreme Court as a judge in December 2008. Born on 13 December, 1950, he enrolled as an advocate in 1975 and began practising in Bangalore and dealt with all types of matters – civil, criminal, tax and Constitutional cases.
Justice Dattu, who will take charge as the 42nd CJI, retires on 2 December, 2015. ‘I will request for blessing of all citizens of this country to give me courage and confidence to take this institution of mine to the highest stride,’ he had said on Wednesday when the file relating to his appointment reached the Prime Minister’s Office. Justice Dattu, whose father was a school teacher, said, ‘it will be the happiest day of his life to head the institution of judiciary’ and ‘at the end of the day I can only say that I will do my best to improve the institution’. ‘Mine is the best institution in the world,’ he added.
However, the judge, who started his legal profession from Karnataka, refused to comment on the issue of latest controversy surrounding the attempt to scrap the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judiciary. He joined the Supreme Court as a judge in December 2008. Born on 13 December, 1950, he enrolled as an advocate in 1975 and began practising in Bangalore and dealt with all types of matters – civil, criminal, tax and Constitutional cases.
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