Chief Justice of India - Surya Kant
53rd CJI of India
Took oath on November 24th, 2025 after BR Gavai's term ending on November 23rd.
Serve till 09.02.2027
Will serve until 9th february, 2027, a little more than 14 months
Haryana's hisar district
Born in Petwar village in Haryana's Hisar district on 10, february, 1962.
Education
- Justice Kant cleared matriculation from the village school,
- pursued his undergraduate education at Government PG College, Hisar, and
- earned his LLB from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, in 1984.
- As a sitting judge, he completed LLM from Kurukshetra University through distance learning in 2011, standing first in the varsity.
First generation lawyers
Siblings of 4
- has three brothers and a sister.
- His eldest sister Kamla Devi, 74, lives in Jind.
- Dr Shiv Kant is a pulmonologist in Bhiwani
- Dev Kant (66) retired from the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) as an instructor and settled in Hisar.
Father and Mother and wife
- father Madan Gopal Shastri taught Sanskrit at a government school, and their mother was a homemaker. Justice Kant’s wife, Savita Kant, retired as principal of a government college in Panchkula.
One year practice in district courts
- After one year of practice in Hisar district courts starting in 1984, Justice Kant shifted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh.
English skills
- When he argued his first major case, everyone was impressed with his preparation and arguments in English language.
1985 - HC
- Justice Kant started at the High Court in 1985
2000 - Haryana's youngest Advocate General
- In July 2000, at 38, Surya Kant became Haryana’s youngest advocate general under the Om Prakash Chautala government and served until january 9, 2004.
March 2001
- He was designated a Senior Advocate
2004 - Punjab and Haryana HC bench
- In 2004, Four years later, at 42, Justice Kant was elevated to the Punjab and Haryana High Court bench, becoming one of the youngest judges appointed to that court.
CJ of HP HC - 2018 - 2019
- After 14 years there, he served briefly as Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court from October 2018 to May 2019 before his elevation to the Supreme Court in May 2019.
2019 - SC
- elevated to the supreme court on may 24, 2019.
Chairman of SCLSC
- Supreme Court Legal Services Committee, since November 12, 2024.
Legal Remembrance post
- Legal Remembrance, who is also the Legal Secretary to the government, a senior district judge.
Family's trust
- The family maintains a trust, named Pandit Ram Prasad Atma Ram after Justice Kant’s grandfather and paternal uncle.
- Since their father’s death in 2018, the trust has been awarding cash prizes to students achieving the top three positions in classes 10 and 12 in Petwar’s two schools.
Timeline Chart
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