Surya Kant (judge)

• Mansoor Ahmad Mir
• Sanjay Karol (acting)

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Surya Kant
53rd [1] Chief Justice of India
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 November 2025
Succeeded by	V. Ramasubramanian

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Surya Kant CJI
Vikram Nath Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari B. V. Nagarathna M. M. Sundresh P. S. Narasimha J. B. Pardiwala Dipankar Datta Pankaj Mithal Sanjay Karol P. V. Sanjay Kumar Ahsanuddin Amanullah Manoj Misra Rajesh Bindal Aravind Kumar Prashant Kumar Mishra K. V. Viswanathan Ujjal Bhuyan Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti Satish Chandra Sharma Augustine George Masih Sandeep Mehta Prasanna B. Varale N. Kotiswar Singh R. Mahadevan Manmohan K. Vinod Chandran Joymalya Bagchi Nilay Anjaria Vijay Bishnoi A. S. Chandurkar Alok Aradhe Vipul Pancholi
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