Who Will Be The Next CJI?

By FnF Correspondent | PUBLISHED: 16, Apr 2025, 17:48 pm IST | UPDATED: 16, Apr 2025, 17:48 pm IST

Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Wednesday recommended Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai as the next CJI.

As per the Memorandum of Procedure(MoP), the Centre asks the outgoing CJI to name the successor, just before a month of retirement. Thus, according to the practice of the CJI naming the senior-most judge as his successor, CJI Khanna wrote to the Central government and recommended the name of Justice Gavai.

Justice Gavai was born on November 24 in 1960, at Amravati. He joined the bar on March 16, 1985, and was the standing counsel for the Municipal Corporation of Nagpur, Amravati Municipal Corporation, and Amravati University.

According to PTI, he was the assistant government pleader and additional public prosecutor in the Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench from August 1992 to July 1993. Justice Gavai was appointed as a government pleader and public prosecutor for the Nagpur bench on January 17, 2000.

Later, he was elevated as an additional judge of the Bombay HC on November 14, 2003. He became a permanent judge of the High Court on November 12, 2005.