{"id":315766,"date":"2019-10-18T07:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315766"},"modified":"2019-10-18T07:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:03:57","slug":"cji-ranjan-gogoi-recommends-justice-sa-bobde-as-his-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cji-ranjan-gogoi-recommends-justice-sa-bobde-as-his-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI Ranjan Gogoi recommends Justice SA Bobde as his successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315768 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1.jpg 523w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/bobte1-485x360.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/>Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has written to the government recommending Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court as his successor, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the sitting CJI has to write and recommend his immediate successor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sworn in as the Chief Justice of India on October 3, 2018, Justice Gogoi will retire on November 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Gogoi, in his letter, has reportedly recommended that the government should start the process of\u00a0appointing Justice SA Bobde as the next Chief Justice of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Bobde is a former Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is due to retire on April 23, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has written to the government recommending Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court as his successor, sources said. According to the sources, the sitting CJI has to write and recommend his immediate successor. Sworn in as the Chief Justice of India on October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5498,11872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315769,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315766\/revisions\/315769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}