Justice Thakur, to be sworn in as the Chief Justice on India by the President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday, said 2016 would be devoted to Clearance of Arrears in the courts while pointing out that “Arrears remained a formidable challenge”. He is due to retire on 4 Jan 2017 will have a tenure of over a year.
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He practised in Civil, Criminal, Constitutional, Taxation and Service matters in the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir.
Designated as Senior Advocate in 1990, Justice Thakur was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court on February 16, 1994. He took over from Justice H L Dattu who retired yesterday. In 2008, he was appointed as the acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and took over as Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in 2008.
Former Chief Justice of India Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (H.L. Dattu) was appointed as the Chief Justice of India in September 2014.
His mother Saraswati Thakur and other family members were present at the function.
The chief justice of India is the head of the judiciary and responsible for not just the administrative oversight of the apex court, but also of judicial appointments and transfers of the higher judiciary-high courts and the Supreme Court.
The ceremony was also attended by cabinet ministers Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, DV Sadananda Gowda, Harsh Vardhan, Smriti Irani, and senior BJP leader LK Advani attended the ceremony. Later, he was transferred as a Judge of the High Court of Delhi in July 2004.
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Delhi Governor Najeeb Jung, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attended the function.
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After quashing the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) and reviving the collegium system, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the appointment of new judges will remain on hold until it works out what needs to be done to reform the scheme for appointing judges which has been widely criticized for lacking transparency.
