Justice Altamas Kabir(64) was on Saturday Sep 29,2012 sworn in as the 39th Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at a brief ceremony in the Ashoka Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
NDA working Chairman L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD leader Lalu Prasad were also present at the swearing in.
NDA working Chairman L.K. Advani, Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD leader Lalu Prasad were also present at the swearing in.
Justice Altamas Kabir succeeds Justice S.H. Kapadia(who served as the CJI for nearly two-and-a-half years)and will serve a tenure of nine months till July 18, 2013.
President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, new Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir, his predecessor Justice SH Kapadia and Union law minister Salman Khurshid are seen during a group photo session at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi
Born on July 19, 1948 in Kolkata, Justice Kabir did his LLB and MA from
University of Calcutta and was made a permanent judge of the Calcutta
High Court on August 6, 1990.Justice Kabir was appointed Supreme Court judge on September 9, 2005.
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