General Awareness plays a crucial rule in clearing any competitive exams nowadays. Be it SSC, Railway or anything else. General Awareness section is broadly classified into two Static Awareness and Current Affairs. Static Awareness includes topics like Polity, Geography, History, General Science. In this article, we are providing the names of the Chief Justices in India. This will help you score well in your upcoming examinations. Entri team provides you exam related GK questions which are repeatedly asked in the competitive examinations.
List Of Chief Justices in India
No | Name | Tenure |
1 | Sir Maurice Gwyer | 1 October 1937 – 25 April 1943 |
Acting | 25 April 1943 – 7 June 1943 | |
2 | Sir Patrick Spens | 7 June 1943 – 14 August 1947 |
3 | Sir H.J Kania | 14 August 1947 – 6 November 1951 |
4 | M. Patanjali Shastri | 7 November 1951 – 3 January 1954 |
5 | Mehr Chand Mahajan | 4 January 1954 – 22 December 1954 |
6 | Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | 23 December 1954 – 31 January 1956 |
7 | Sudhi Ranjan Das | 1 February 1956 – 30 September 1959 |
8 | Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha | 1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964 |
9 | P. B Gajendragadkar | 1 February 1964 – 15 March 1966 |
10 | Amal Kumar Sarkar | 16 March 1966 – 29 June 1966 |
11 | Kokka Subbaa Rao | 30 June 1966 – 11 April 1967 |
12 | Kailas Nath Wanchoo | 12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968 |
13 | Mohammed Hidayatullah | 25 February 1968 – 16 December 1970 |
14 | Jayanthilal Chottalal Shah | 17 December 1970 – 21 January 1971 |
15 | Sarv Mitra Sakri | 22 January 1971- 25 April 1973 |
16 | A.N Ray | 26 April 1973 – 27 January 1977 |
17 | Mirza Hemadullah Beg | 29 January 1977 – 21 February 1978 |
18 | Y.V Chandrachud | 22 February 1978 – 11 July 1985 |
19 | P.N Bhagwati | 12 July 1985- 20 December 1986 |
20 | Raghunandhan Swarup Pathak | 21 December 1986 – 18 June 1989 |
21 | Engalagappa Seetharamaih Venkataramaih | 19 June 1989 – 17 December 1989 |
22 | Sabayaschi Mukherjee | 18 December 1989 – 25 September 1990 |
23 | Ranganathan Mishra | 26 September 1990- 24 November 1991 |
24 | Kamal Narain Singh | 25 November 1991 – 12 December 1991 |
25 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 13 December 1991 – 17 November 1992 |
26 | Lailit Mohan Mishra | 18 November 1992 – 11 February 1993 |
27 | M.N Venkatachaliah | 12 February 1993 – 24 October 1994 |
28 | Aziz Mushabeer Ahmadi | 25 October 1994 – 24 March 1997 |
29 | J.S Verma | 25 March 1997 – 17 January 1998 |
30 | Madan Mohan Punchi | 18 January 1998 – 9 October 1998 |
31 | Adarsh Sein Anand | 10 October 1998- 31 October 2001 |
32 | Sam Piroj Bharucha | 1 November 2001 – 5 May 2002 |
33 | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 6 May 2002 – 7 November 2002 |
34 | Gopal Ballav Patnaik | 8 November 2002- 18 December 2002 |
35 | V.N Khare | 19 December 2002 – 1 May 2004 |
36 | S. Rajendra Babu | 2 May 2004 – 31 May 2004 |
37 | Ramesh Bhandra Lahoti | 1 June 2004 – 31 October 2005 |
38 | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 1 November 2005 – 13 January 2007 |
39 | K.G Balakrishnan | 14 January 2007 – 12 May 2010 |
40 | S.H Kapadia | 12 May 2010 – 28 September 2012 |
41 | Altamas Kabir | 29 September 2012 – 18 July 2013 |
42 | P. Sathasivam | 19 July 2013 – 26 April 2014 |
43 | Rajendra Mal Lodha | 27 April 2014 – 27 September 2014 |
44 | H.L Dattu | 28 September 2014 – 2 December 2015 |
45 | T.S Thakur | 3 December 2015 – 3 January 2017 |
46 | Jagdish Singh Kekar | 4 January 2017 – 27 August 2017 |
47 | Dipak Mishra | 28 August 2017 – 2 October 2018 |
48 | Ranjan Gogoi | 2 October 2018 – 17 November 2019 |
49 | Sharad Arvind Bobde | 18 November 2019 – November 8, 2022 |
50 | D.Y. Chandrachud | 09 November 2019 – November 10, 2024 |
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