All you need to know about new Chief Justice of India

Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, the 48th Chief Justice of India, as appointed by the President Ram Nath Kovind and recommended by his predecessor Chief justice SA Bobde who is due to retire from post. 
After Justice Bobde’s obligatory leave on 23rd April, NV Ramana will be taking his oath on 24th of April. He is the second Chief Justice of India from state of Andhra Pradesh appointed for post, the first being Justice K Subba Rao who served from 1966-67, while Ramana term continues till 26 August 2022.
Justice Ramana was born in a family of farmer, in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. This first-generation lawyer has also worked as a journalist for a local newspaper for two years before opting for judiciary in 1983. He was appointed as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court by then President Pranab Mukherjee in 2013 and also served as acting Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh from May 10 to May 20, 2013 and become judge in supreme court of India in 2014.
NV Ramana has prominently invested his nearly four decades of long profession practising in honourable High court of Andhra Pradesh for administrative tribunal matters, Supreme Court of India in criminal, labour, service, civil, constitutional and election matters. He is also having specialisation in service, inter-state river, criminal, civil, constitutional matters.
 He was on panel counsel for many government organizations also a standing counsel for Railways in the Central Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad.
 Justice Ramana was part of bench that ruled that suspension of internet service in Jammu and Kashmir should be reviewed immediately. Also was part of panel of judges which held that Chief Justice’s office come under the extent of Right to Information (RTI) act.

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