The next Chief Justice of India will be Justice Surya Kant, who will replace Chief Justice BR Gavai. On November 24, Justice Surya Kant, who presently holds the position of senior judge on the Supreme Court, will be sworn in. Following Justice Gavai’s retirement on November 23, Justice Surya Kant will take over as India’s 53rd Chief Justice.
His appointment was announced via a notification from the Union Law Ministry’s Department of Justice. For over 15 months, Justice Surya Kant will serve as chief justice. When he turns 65 on February 9, 2027, he will leave office.
On X, Arjun Ram Meghwal, India’s Minister of Law and Justice, declared Justice Surya Kant to be the country’s 53rd Chief Justice.
He said, “In exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Surya Kant, Judge of the Supreme Court of India as the Chief Justice of India with effect from 24th November, 2025. I convey my heartiest congratulations and best wishes to him.”
Justice Surya Kant is who?
Justice Surya Kant was appointed to the Supreme Court on May 24, 2019. He was born into a middle-class family in the Hisar district of Haryana on February 10, 1962.
In 1981, Justice Surya Kant received his degree from Government Post Graduate College in Hisar. In 1984, he graduated with a Bachelor of Law from Maharishi Dayanand University in Rohtak. In 1984, Justice Kant began practicing law at the District Court in Hisar after earning his bachelor’s degree.
Justice Kant moved to Chandigarh in 1985 to work in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. His areas of expertise were civil, constitutional, and service issues. In addition, he represented the High Court itself as well as several universities, boards, corporations, and banks.
On July 7, 2000, Justice Surya Kant became the youngest Advocate General of Haryana, according to the Supreme Court of India website.
In March 2001, he was appointed Senior Advocate. held the position of Advocate General, Haryana, till January 09, 2004, when he was appointed a permanent judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court. was proposed on February 23, 2007, for two terms in a row until February 22, 2011, as a member of the National Legal Services Authority’s Governing Body.
In 2011, he received a Master’s degree in law from Kurukshetra University’s Directorate of Distance Education, earning him another distinction: First Class First. assumed leadership of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice position on October 5, 2018.
On May 24, 2019, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
The colonial-era sedition statute was put on hold by Justice Kant’s historic bench, which ordered that no new FIRs be filed under it until a government review was completed.
Additionally, he demonstrated his dedication to electoral transparency by pressuring the Election Commission to provide the identities of 65 lakh Bihar voters who were excluded.