The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial court and the final court of appeal under the Constitution of India, the highest constitutional court, with the power of judicial review. Consisting of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of 31 judges, it has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the head of the judiciary of India and the Supreme Court of India. The CJI also heads their administrative functions.
The Madras High Court is the high court of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The court is one of the three High Courts in India established in the three Presidency Towns of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862. It exercises original jurisdiction over the city of Chennai and appellate jurisdiction over the entire state of Tamil Nadu and Union territory of Puducherry, as well as extraordinary original jurisdiction, civil and criminal, under the letters patent and special original jurisdiction for the issue of writs under the Constitution of India. Covering 107 acres, the court complex is one of the largest in the world, next only to Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London.
Sam Piroj Bharucha was the 30th Chief Justice of India, serving from November 2001 until his retirement in 2002.
Justice R. M. Lodha was the 41st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court, he served as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court. He has also served as a judge in Rajasthan High Court and Bombay High Court. On 14 July 2015, the Supreme Court committee headed by RM Lodha suspended the owners of Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings from the Indian Premier League cricket tournament for a period of two years for alleged involvement in betting.
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud is currently a judge of the Supreme Court of India, He is a former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of the Bombay High Court.
Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania was the first Chief Justice of India, dying in office in 1951. He was the chief justice of india from 1950 to 1951.
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah was the twelfth Chief Justice of India from 17 December 1970 until his retirement on 21 January 1971. He was born in Ahmedabad.
Sarosh Homi Kapadia was the thirty-eighth Chief Justice of India.
Anil Ramesh Dave is a former judge at the Supreme Court of India and the current Executive-Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority. Before being elevated to the Supreme Court of India, he was Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court and Bombay High Court.
Sharad Arvind Bobde is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is also serving as the Chancellor of Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai and Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur. He is due to retire on 23 April 2021. With a tenure of eight years in Supreme Court of India, he is in line to be Chief Justice of India after superannuation of Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar is a former Chief Justice of the Punjab & Haryana High Court in January 1994 later he became a Judge of the Supreme Court of India in March 96 and retired in January 2000.He was earlier a Judge in the Bombay High Court. He was acting Governor of Punjab from July 94 to September 94.
Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar is a Judge of Supreme Court of India and the former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court and Himachal Pradesh High Court.
Naoto Ōtani is a Japanese lawyer and is the 19th and current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian jurist.He served as the Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court and Allahabad High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was the head of Mukherjee Commission.
