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Jagdish Singh Khehar

Jagdish Singh Khehar
44th Chief Justice of India
In office
4 January 2017 – 27 August 2017
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Preceded byT. S. Thakur
Succeeded byDipak Misra
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
13 September 2011 – 3 January 2017
Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court
In office
8 August 2010 – 12 September 2011
Preceded byP. D. Dinakaran
Succeeded byVikramajit Sen
7th Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court
In office
29 November 2009 – 7 August 2010
Preceded byTarun Agarwala (acting)
Succeeded byBarin Ghosh
Personal details
Born (1952-08-28) 28 August 1952 (age 72)
Nairobi, British Kenya, now Nairobi, Kenya[1]
NationalityIndian (1965-present); Kenyan (1963-1965); British (1952-1963)
Alma materPanjab University, Chandigarh
OccupationJudge
ReligionSikhism
Source:[2]

Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 28 August 1952) is an Indian jurist, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of India from 4 January 2017 to 27 August 2017.[2][3] He was the first Sikh Chief Justice of India.[4][5] He has been a judge in Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 27 August 2017 upon superannuation.[6] He served for a brief period but gave many landmark judgements such as the Triple Talaq and the Right to Privacy verdict. He was succeeded by Justice Dipak Misra.

  1. ^ "Jagdish Singh Khehar - Profile". 2018 Privacy Conference. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar - Profile". Supreme Court of India. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  3. ^ "J S Khehar may become 1st Sikh Chief Justice of India in 2017". Day & Night News. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Chief Justice J.S. Khehar ends his eventful tenure with a bang". 25 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar had defined who is a Sikh". The Times of India. 7 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Justice J.S. Khehar appointed as 44th Chief Justice of India". The Hindu. 19 December 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2016.

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