List of Chief Justices of India

The Chief Justice of India is the head of the judiciary system in India. The chief justice is the head of the Supreme Court and is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law.

Name of the Chief Justice of IndiaTime Period
H.J Kania26th January 1950 – 6th November 1951
M. Patanjali Sastri7th November 1951 – 3rd January 1954
Mehr Chand Mahajan4th January 1954 – 22nd December 1954
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea23rd December 1954 – 31st January 1956
Sudhi Ranjan Das1st February 1956 – 30th September 1959
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha1st  October 1959 – 31st January 1964
P. B. Gajendragadkar1st  February 1964 – 15th March 1966
Amal Kumar Sarkar16th  March 1966 – 29th June 1966
Koka Subba Rao30th  June 1966 – 11th  April 1967
Kailas Nath Wanchoo12th  April 1967 – 24th  February 1968
Mohammad Hidayatullah25th  February 1968 – 16th  December 1970
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah17th  December 1970 – 21st  January 1971
Sarv Mittra Sikri22nd  January 1971 – 25th  April 1973
A. N. Ray26th  April 1973 – 27th  January 1977
Mirza Hameedullah Beg29th  January 1977 – 21st  February 1978
Y. V. Chandrachud22nd  February 1978 – 11th  July 1985
P. N. Bhagwati12th  July 1985 – 20th  December 1986
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak21st  December 1986 – 18th  June 1989
Engalaguppe Seetharamaiah Venkataramiah19th  June 1989 – 17th  December 1989
Sabyasachi Mukharji18th  December 1989 – 25th  September 1990
Ranganath Misra26th  September 1990 – 24th  November 1991
Kamal Narain Singh25th  November 1991 – 12th  December 1991
Madhukar Hiralal Kania13th  December 1991 – 17th  November 1992
Lalit Mohan Sharma18th  November 1992 – 11th  February 1993
M. N. Venkatachaliah12th  February 1993 – 24th  October 1994
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi25th  October 1994 – 24th  March 1997
J. S. Verma25th  March 1997 – 17th  January 1998
Madan Mohan Punchhi18th  January 1998 – 9th  October 1998
Adarsh Sein Anand10th  October 1998 – 31st  October 2001
Sam Piroj Bharucha1st  November 2001 – 5th  May 2002
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal6th  May 2002 – 7th  November 2002
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik8th  November 2002 – 18th  December 2002
V. N. Khare19th  December 2002 – 1st  May 2004
S. Rajendra Babu2nd  May 2004 – 31st  May 2004
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti1st  June 2004 – 31st  October 2005
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal1st  November 2005 – 13th  January 2007
K. G. Balakrishnan14th  January 2007 – 12th  May 2010
S. H. Kapadia12th  May 2010 – 28th  September 2012
Altamas Kabir29th  September 2012 – 18th  July 2013
P. Sathasivam19th  July 2013 – 26th  April 2014
Rajendra Mal Lodha27th  April 2014 – 27th  September 2014
H. L. Dattu28th  September 2014 – 2nd  December 2015
T. S. Thakur3rd  December 2015 – 3rd  January 2017
Jagdish Singh Khehar4th  January 2017 – 27th  August 2017
Dipak Misra28th  August 2017 – 2nd  October 2018
Ranjan Gogoi3rd  October 2018 – 17th  November 2019
Sharad Arvind Bobde18th  November 2019  –  23 th April 2021
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana24 th April 2021 –  26 th August 2021
Uday Umesh Lalit27 th August 2021 – Present

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