Supreme Court is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal in India. The Supreme Court of India was established on 28th January, 1950. Supreme Court of India replaced Federal Court of India and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which were then highest judicial body in Indian Court System.
Originally Supreme Court was set up with a chief justice and seven other judges but currently there are 25 judges in Supreme Court including Chief Justice of India.
Hare is the list of Chief Justice of India:
Number | Name | Period of Office | Length of term(day) | Appointer (President of India) | |
1 | H J Kania | 26th January 1950 | 6th November, 1951 | 649 | Rajendra Prashad |
2 | M. Patanjali Sastri | 7th November 1951 | 3rd January 1994 | 788 | Rajendra Prashad |
3 | Meher Chand Mahajan | 4th January 1954 | 22nd December 1954 | 352 | Rajendra Prashad |
4 | Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | 23rd December 1994 | 31st January 1956 | 404 | Rajendra Prashad |
5 | Sudhi Ranjan Das | 1st February 1956 | 30th September 1959 | 1337 | Rajendra Prashad |
6 | Bhuvaneshwar Prashad Sinha | 1st October 1959 | 31st January 1964 | 1583 | Rajendra Prashad |
7 | P.B. Gajendragadkar | 1st February 1964 | 15th March 1966 | 773 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
8 | Amal Kumar Sarkar | 16th March 1966 | 29th June 1966 | 105 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
9 | Koka Subba Rao | 30th June 1966 | 11th April 1967 | 285 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
10 | Kailas Nath wanchoo | 12th April 1967 | 24th February 1968 | 318 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
11 | Mohammad Hidayatullah | 25th February 1968 | 16th December, 1970 | 1025 | Zakir Hussain |
12 | Jayantilal Chhotalal shah | 17th December 1970 | 21st January 1971 | 35 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
13 | Sarv Mittra Sikri | 22nd January 1971 | 25th April 1973 | 824 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
14 | Ajit Nath Roy | 26th April, 1973 | 27th January 1977 | 1372 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri |
15 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | 28th January 1977 | 21st February 1978 | 389 | Fakruddin Ali Ahamed |
16 | Yeaswant Vishnu Chandrachud | 22nd February 1978 | 11th July 1985 | 2696 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
17 | Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati | 12th July 1985 | 20th December 1986 | 526 | Gyani Zail Singh |
18 | Raghunandan swarup pathak | 20th December 1986 | 18th June 1989 | 940 | Gyani Zail Singh |
19 | Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah | 19th June 1989 | 17th December 1989 | 181 | Ramaswami Venkataraman |
20 | Sabyasachi Mukharji | 18th December 1989 | 25 September 1990 | 281 | Ramaswami Venkataraman |
21 | Ranganath Mishra | 26th September 1990 | 24th November 1991 | 424 | Ramaswami Venkataraman |
22 | Kamal Narain Singh | 25th November 1991 | 12th December 1991 | 17 | Ramaswami Venkataraman |
23 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 13th December 1991 | 17th November 1992 | 340 | Ramaswami Venkataraman |
24 | Lalit Mohan Sharma | 18th December 1992 | 11th February 1993 | 85 | Sankar Dayal Sharma |
25 | Manepelli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah | 12th February 1993 | 24th October 1994 | 619 | Sankar Dayal Sharma |
26 | Aziz Mushabbar Ahmadi | 25th October 1994 | 24th March 1997 | 881 | Sankar Dayal Sharma |
27 | Jagdish Sharma Verma | 25th March 1997 | 17th January 1998 | 298 | Sankar Dayal Sharma |
28 | Madan Mohan Punchi | 18th January 1998 | 9th October 1998 | 264 | Kocheri Raman Narayanan |
29 | Adrash Sein Anand | 10th October 1998 | 31st October 2001 | 1117 | Kocheri Raman Narayanan |
30 | Sam piroj Bharucha | 1st November 2001 | 5th May 2002 | 185 | Kocheri Raman Narayanan |
31 | Bhupindar Nath Kirpal | 6th May 2002 | 7th November 2002 | 185 | Kocheri Raman Narayanan |
32 | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | 8th November 2002 | 18th December 2002 | 40 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
33 | V. N. Khare | 19th December 2002 | 1st May 2004 | 499 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
34 | S. Rajendra Babu | 2nd May 2004 | 31st May 2004 | 29 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
35 | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | 1st June 2004 | 31st October 2005 | 517 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
36 | Yogesh Kumar Sabhaewal | 1st November 2005 | 13th January 2007 | 438 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
37 | K. G. Balakrishnan | 14th January 2007 | 12th May 2010 | 1214 | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
38 | S. H. Kapadia | 13th May 2010 | 28th September 2012 | 870 | Pratibha Patil |
39 | Altamas Kabir | 29th September 2012 | 18th July 2013 | 292 | Pranab Mukherjee |
40 | P. Sathashivam | 19th July 2013 | 26th April 2014 | 281 | Pranab Mukherjee |
41 | Rajendra Lal Lodha | 27th April 2014 | 27th September 2014 | 153 | Pranab Mukherjee |
42 | H. L. Dattu | 28th September 2014 | 2nd December 2015 | 430 | Pranab Mukherjee |
43 | T.S. Thakur | 3rd December 2015 | 3rd January 2017 | 397 | Pranab Mukherjee |
44 | Jagdish Singh Khehkar | 4th January 2017 | 27th August 2017 | 235 | Pranab Mukherjee |
45 | Dipak Mishra | 28th August 2017 | 2nd October 2018 | 400 | Ram Nath Kovind |
46 | Ranjan Gogoi | 3rd October 2018 | 17th November 2019 | 410 | Ram Nath Kovind |