File photo of Justice Ranjan Gogoi speaking at the event in Dibrugarh.

Justice Ranjan Gogoi from Assam is all set to be appointed as the next Chief Justice of India. Northeast Now has prepared a brief profile of Justice Ranjan Gogoi with inputs from Dibrugarh Bar Association president Advocate Ajit Borgohain.

  • Son of ex-Assam chief minister Keshab Gogoi
  • Born on November 18, 1954 at Dibrugarh
  • Studied at Don Bosco, Dibrugarh
  • Pre-University from Cotton College, Guwahati.
  • Graduated from St Stephens College, New Delhi with Honours in History.
  • Post graduation from Delhi University and Law from Delhi University.
  • Joined the bar in 1978 at Guwahati.
  • His senior was advocate JP Bhattacharjee.
  • Appointed as Permanent Judge of Gauhati HC on February 28, 2001
  • Became the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court in February 12, 2011.
  • Judge of the Supreme Court on April 23, 2012
  • Head of special bench that monitored the update of NRC

Important judgements

  • Part of the bench that gave ruling that no one can contest elections without making a full and honest disclosure about his/her assets and educational and criminal antecedents.
  • Part of the bench that held women cannot become a Kartaof a joint family but can be the managers in some particular circumstances.
  • He was a part of the bench that restrained ruling parties from publishing photographs of political leaders or prominent persons in government-funded advertisements.
  • Part of the Supreme Court bench which commuted death sentence of Govindaswamy, a convict in the rape and murder of 23-year-old Soumya, to a seven-year jail term.
  • He was a part of the Supreme Court bench that declined to attribute a backward status to the Jat community.
  • Part of the seven-judge bench, headed by Justice Khehar that issued a contempt order against Justice CS Karnan on the charge of contempt of Court and degrading the judiciary.

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