Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana appointed as 48th chief justice of India

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana has been appointed as the Chief Justice of India. A notification in this regard has been issued by the department of justice, ministry of law & justice today.

Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana will take over as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India on April 24, 2021. He will be the 48th Chief Justice of India.

Ramana is a first-generation lawyer, having an agricultural background, and hails from Ponnavaram village in Andhra Pradesh.

He is an avid reader and literature enthusiast. He is passionate about Carnatic music.

He was called on to the Bar on February 10, 1983. He practiced in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Central and Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunals, and the Supreme Court of India.

He specialized in Constitutional, Civil, Labour, Service, and Election matters. He has also practiced before Inter-State River Tribunals.

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During his practice years, he was a panel counsel for various government organizations and as additional standing counsel for railways in the central administrative tribunal at Hyderabad before rendering services as additional advocate general of Andhra Pradesh.

Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana served as puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of India from February 17, 2014.

He served as the Chairman of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee from March 7, 2019, to November 26, 2019.

He has also served as the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) since 27.11.2019.

Initially, he was appointed as a Permanent Judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court on 27.06.2000. He also functioned as Acting Chief Justice of his parent High Court from 10.3.2013 to 20.5.2013.

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