Justice BR Gavai: New Chief Justice of India known for his boldness

Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, India's 52nd CJI, has played a key role in shaping the judicial landscape, penning about 300 verdicts, including landmark rulings on constitutional issues, liberty, and perhaps most importantly against the executive's "bulldozer justice".

- First India Bureau

Rising from humble beginnings to the highest judicial office of the land, Justice Gavai belongs to a village in Maharashtra's Amravati district.

He touched his mother’s feet after taking oath of office at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Born on No-

vember 24, 1960, the Amaravati born is the son of RS Gavai, a career politician, who started the Republican Party of India (Gavai).

Elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on

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