New Delhi:
Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gawai, the 52nd Chief Justice of India and its earlier Buddhist, have played an important role in shaping the judicial landscape, including about 300 decisions, including constitutional issues, freedom and perhaps the most important landmark ruling against the most important executive’s “bulldozer Justice”.
Justice Gawai, who is the second Dalit after KG Balakrishnan, the head of the Indian judiciary, was sworn in by President Drupadi Murmu on Wednesday for a six -month term ending November 23, 2025.
Growing up to the highest judicial office of the land from the humble beginning, Justice Gawai belongs to a village in Amravati district of Maharashtra. He touched his mother’s feet after taking oath in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Born on 24 November 1960, Amravati is born a career politician, son of Gawai, who started the Republican Party of India (Gawai).
On May 24, 2019, Advanced, Justice Gawai was part of the Constitution Bench as a Judge of the Supreme Court, which distributed path-breaking decisions including Article 370, election bonds and demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and 500 rupee notes.
It was a bench headed by Justice Gawai, who stopped at the Allahabad High Court’s comments to try to raise a woman’s breasts and try to raped her “pajamas”, and said it reflects the total “insensitivity” and “inhuman outlook”.
During his tenure as a Judge of the Supreme Court in the last six years, Justice Gavai was part of about 700 benches related to matters related to many subjects related to many subjects including constitutional and administrative law, civil and criminal law, commercial disputes, arbitration law and environment law. He took around 300 decisions, including the decisions of the Constitution Bench on various issues, maintaining the rule of law and protecting the fundamental, human and legal rights of the citizens.
As CJI, Justice Gawai will have to deal with issues such as huge pendency of cases including more than 81,000 cases in the Supreme Court, vacancies in courts.
In the judicial side, he will be very debated Waqf (Amendment) Act, related to the controversial issue related to the validity of 2025.
Before taking oath as CJI, Justice Gawai told reporters in an informal conversation with journalists at his residence here that the Constitution is supreme. He also clarified that he would not take any post -retirement assignment.
It was part of a five-judge Constitution Bench, unanimously retained the decision of the center to cancel the provisions of Article 370, except for the special status for the east state of Jammu and Kashmir in December 2023.
One and five-judge Constitution Bench, of which Justice Gawai was a part, canceled the election bond scheme for political funds.
It was also part of a five-judge Constitution Bench, which, by the 4: 1 majority decision, approved the Center’s 2016 decision about Rs 1,000 and sect currency notes of Rs 500.
Justice Gawai was part of a bench of the seven-judge Constitution, which was held by 6: 1 majority that states have been constitutionally empowered to create sub-classification within Scheduled Castes, which are socially formed socially, which are to provide reservation for the upliftment of castes which are social and educationally more backward.
A seven-judge Constitution bench, including Justice Gawai, decided that an unstamped or insufficiently stored agreement between the parties was applied to the mediation section as such a defect was reduced and the contract was not presented to the invalid.
Justice Gawai was part of a five-judge constitution bench, which in January 2023 ruled that the fundamental right to freedom of speech and the fundamental right to express the expression of high public officials cannot be imposed as under the Constitution already exist under the Constitution to curb that right.
He gave a historic verdict to laying the PAN-India guidelines on the demolition and said that no property should be demolished without pre-demonstration notice and 15 days should be given to respond to being affected.
They have also dealt with matters related to the safety of forests, wildlife, trees and have passed several orders to protect the environment.
Justice Gawai has given lectures on various constitutional and environmental issues in various universities and organizations including Columbia University and Harvard University.
He was elevated as additional judges of the Bombay High Court on 14 November 2003. He became a permanent judge of the High Court on November 12, 2005.
He joined the bar on March 16, 1985 and was a permanent lawyer for the Municipal Corporation of Nagpur, Amravati Municipal Corporation and Amravati University.
He worked as an assistant government petitioner and additional public prosecutor in the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court from August 1992 to July 1993.
Justice Gawai was appointed as a government petitioner and public prosecutor for the Nagpur bench on 17 January 2000.
On 16 April, his predecessor Sanjeev Khanna recommended the name of Center Justice Gawai as the next CJI.
On 29 April, the Law Ministry issued a notification announced by the appointment of Justice Gawai as the 52nd CJI.
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