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CJI’s nephew among 14 names proposed for elevation to HC
Hindustan Times Lucknow
|August 26, 2025
The Supreme Court collegium’s latest round of recommendations for the Bombay high courtis interesting because one of the 14 names proposed for elevation is Raj Damodar Wak-ode, 45. If his career follows the usual trajectory, he will be in the zone of consideration for the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) decades later.
That would be significant because he is the nephew of CJI Bhushan R Gavai, the son of his cousin. Thatis still rare, but not uncommon in the Supreme Court. As an HT analysis of all Supreme Court judges between January 26, 1950 and May 15, 2025 showed, 32 of the 279 judges were close family relations. To be sure, by the time ‘Wako
This story is from the August 26, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Lucknow.
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