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First published: January 4, 2017, 9:29 AM IST | Updated: 3 mins ago
File photo of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar the 44th Chief Justice of India (PTI Photo)
New Delhi: Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar was on Wednesday sworn in as the Chief Justice of India (CJI).
Khehar was administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Delhi: Justice J.S. Khehar takes oath as the New Chief Justice of India at President House. pic.twitter.com/dHbJWygE1I
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He succeeded Justice Tirath Singh Thakur. Khehar is the 44th CJI and also the first Sikh to hold the apex office.
He would have a tenure of little over seven months.
Khehar was the author of the judgment by a five-judge constitution bench that held “unconstitutional” the Constitution’s 99th amendment paving way for the National Judicial Appointment Commission and the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act, 2014.