Union Government Requests CJI’s Supremacy for Chief Justice of India

• Centre seeks CJI’s recommendation for successor.

• CJI is on a Bhutan visit, to return with recommendation.

• Justice Surya Kant is next in line to become 53rd CJI.

• Chief Justice Gavai retires on November 24.

• Law Ministry seeks outgoing CJI’s recommendation for next appointment.

• Justice Kant, youngest Advocate-General of Haryana, appointed Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh in 2018.

• He retired on February 9, 2027.