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 India | Time Period |
H.J Kania | 26th January 1950 – 6th November 1951 |
M. Patanjali Sastri | 7th November 1951 – 3rd January 1954 |
Mehr Chand Mahajan | 4th January 1954 – 22nd December 1954 |
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea | 23rd December 1954 – 31st January 1956 |
Sudhi Ranjan Das | 1st February 1956 – 30th September 1959 |
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha | 1st October 1959 – 31st January 1964 |
P. B. Gajendragadkar | 1st February 1964 – 15th March 1966 |
Amal Kumar Sarkar | 16th March 1966 – 29th June 1966 |
Koka Subba Rao | 30th June 1966 – 11th April 1967 |
Kailas Nath Wanchoo | 12th April 1967 – 24th February 1968 |
Mohammad Hidayatullah | 25th February 1968 – 16th December 1970 |
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah | 17th December 1970 – 21st January 1971 |
Sarv Mittra Sikri | 22nd January 1971 – 25th April 1973 |
A. N. Ray | 26th April 1973 – 27th January 1977 |
Mirza Hameedullah Beg | 29th January 1977 – 21st February 1978 |
Y. V. Chandrachud | 22nd February 1978 – 11th July 1985 |
P. N. Bhagwati | 12th July 1985 – 20th December 1986 |
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | 21st December 1986 – 18th June 1989 |
Engalaguppe Seetharamaiah Venkataramiah | 19th June 1989 – 17th December 1989 |
Sabyasachi Mukharji | 18th December 1989 – 25th September 1990 |
Ranganath Misra | 26th September 1990 – 24th November 1991 |
Kamal Narain Singh | 25th November 1991 – 12th December 1991 |
Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 13th December 1991 – 17th November 1992 |
Lalit Mohan Sharma | 18th November 1992 – 11th February 1993 |
M. N. Venkatachaliah | 12th February 1993 – 24th October 1994 |
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi | 25th October 1994 – 24th March 1997 |
J. S. Verma | 25th March 1997 – 17th January 1998 |
Madan Mohan Punchhi | 18th January 1998 – 9th October 1998 |
Adarsh Sein Anand | 10th October 1998 – 31st October 2001 |
Sam Piroj Bharucha | 1st November 2001 – 5th May 2002 |
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 6th May 2002 – 7th November 2002 |
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | 8th November 2002 – 18th December 2002 |
V. N. Khare | 19th December 2002 – 1st May 2004 |
S. Rajendra Babu | 2nd May 2004 – 31st May 2004 |
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | 1st June 2004 – 31st October 2005 |
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 1st November 2005 – 13th January 2007 |
K. G. Balakrishnan | 14th January 2007 – 12th May 2010 |
S. H. Kapadia | 12th May 2010 – 28th September 2012 |
Altamas Kabir | 29th September 2012 – 18th July 2013 |
P. Sathasivam | 19th July 2013 – 26th April 2014 |
Rajendra Mal Lodha | 27th April 2014 – 27th September 2014 |
H. L. Dattu | 28th September 2014 – 2nd December 2015 |
T. S. Thakur | 3rd December 2015 – 3rd January 2017 |
Jagdish Singh Khehar | 4th January 2017 – 27th August 2017 |
Dipak Misra | 28th August 2017 – 2nd October 2018 |
Ranjan Gogoi | 3rd October 2018 – 17th November 2019 |
Sharad Arvind Bobde | 18th November 2019 – 23 th April 2021 |
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana | 24 th April 2021 – 26 th August 2021 |
Uday Umesh Lalit | 27 th August 2021 – Present |