Sanjiv Khanna
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Sanjiv Khanna | |
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 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| 51st Chief Justice of India | |
| In office 11 November 2024 – 13 May 2025 | |
| Appointed by | Droupadi Murmu |
| Preceded by | Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud |
| Succeeded by | Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai |
| Judge of Supreme Court of India | |
| In office 18 January 2019 – 10 November 2024 | |
| Nominated by | Ranjan Gogoi |
| Appointed by | Ram Nath Kovind |
| Judge of Delhi High Court | |
| In office 24 June 2005 – 17 January 2019 | |
| Nominated by | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti |
| Appointed by | A P J Abdul Kalam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1960 New Delhi, India |
| Relations | Hans Raj Khanna (uncle) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | St Stephen's College, Delhi, (BA) Faculty of Law, Delhi, (LLB) |
Sanjiv Khanna (born 14 May 1960) is a retired Indian jurist who served as the 51st Chief Justice of India from 11 November 2024 to 13 May 2025.[1] He was the ex officio Patron-in-Chief of the National Legal Services Authority and the de facto Chancellor of the National Law School of India University.[2] He has also served as a judge at the Delhi High Court.
Education
Sanjiv Khanna was born on 14 May 1960.[3]
Khanna's uncle was Hans Raj Khanna, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.[4] Hans Raj, who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and famously delivered the lone dissenting judgement in the ADM Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla case, popularly known as the Habeas Corpus case, in 1976, was superseded to the office of the Chief Justice of India by M. H. Beg at the behest of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, protesting which he resigned from the court in early 1977.[5][6][7]
Khanna completed his schooling at the Modern School, New Delhi, in 1977.[8] After graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts, he studied Law at Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in the same batch as Justice Indu Malhotra.[9][8][3]
