Justice NV Ramana was appointed as the ______ Chief Justice of India in April 2021.

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The correct answer is 48th.

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  • Justice NV Ramana:-
    • The 48th Chief Justice of India is Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana.
    • He was born in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district.
    • He formerly served on the Supreme Court of India as a judge, the Delhi High Court as chief justice, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court as interim chief justice.
    • He served as president of the Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy.
    • On June 27, 2000, Ramana was appointed to the Andhra Pradesh High Court as a permanent judge.
    • He was appointed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on September 2, 2013, and a judge of the Supreme Court of India on February 17, 2014. 
    • President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Ramana as the 48th Chief Justice on April 6, 2021, and he took his oath of office at Rashtrapati Bhavan on April 24, 2021.

Additional Information 

List of the Chief Justices of India 

Name

Date of Appointment as C.J.I.

Held Office till

1. Hon’ble Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania

26/01/1950

06/11/1951

43. Hon'ble T. S. Thakur 

03/12/2015

03/01/2017

44. Hon'ble Jagdish Singh Khehar

04/01/2017

27/08/2017

45.  Hon'ble Justice Dipak Misra 

28/08/2017 

02/10/2018

46. Hon'ble Ranjan Gogoi

03/10/2018 

17/11/2019

47.  Hon'ble Sharad Arvind Bobde  

18/11/2019 

23/04/2021

48. Hon'ble Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana

24/04/2021

26/08/2022

49. Uday Umesh Lalit    
50. D.Y. Chandrachud   October 2022  Incumbent
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