N.V. Ramana

Justice N V Ramana will now be the 48th chief justice of India next month. He is from a humble family of agriculturalists in Ponnavaram village, Krishna district in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Justice Ramana was enrolled as an advocate on February 10, 1983. As a lawyer, he practised in Andhra Pradesh High Court, Central Administrative Tribunal, AP state administrative Tribunal and the Supreme Court in the Civil, Criminal, Constitutional, Labour, Service and also election matters with specialisation in Constitutional, Criminal, Service and Inter-State River Laws.

Besides serving on the panel of counsel for various government bodies, he also put in time as Additional Standing Counsel for the Central Government, Standing Counsel for Railways in the Central Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad, and as an Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh. Justice Ramana was amplified as a permanent judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000 and was also performing Chief Justice of AP HC from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013. He even served as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court from September 2, 2013 from where he was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court from February 17, 2014. Justice Ramana headed Supreme Court branches which deal with matters like fast tracking of trials in cases against legislators, and restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of invalidate of the Article 370 of the constitution. In March 2020, a bench headed by him rejected prayers to send petitions challenging the abrogation to a larger bench. Recently, a bench headed by Justice Ramana said the restriction against grant of bail in a strict law like The Unlawful Activities (prevention) Act, 1967 “per-se does not oust the ability of constitutional courts to grant bail on grounds of violation” of a fundamental right like the right to speedy trial. A Constitution bench headed by him also rejected the curative petitions filed by the convicts in the 2012 December gangrape and murder case, finally paving the way for their execution.

Justice Ramana will remain in office as CJI till August 26, 2022Attachments area

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