Know Your Justice (SC): CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde, Supreme Court of India (with important judgment) Amaresh Patel Know Your Justice Sun, Jun 02, 2019, at ,11:45 AM Know Your Justice (SC): CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde, Supreme Court of India (with important judgment) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde takes oath as 47th Chief Justice of India. He sworn in as CJI on 18/11/2019 by President Ram Nath Kovind at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Chief Justice SA Bobde, aged 63, succeeds Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and he will serve as Chief Justice of India till April 23, 2021. Justices NV Ramana is next in line. Born on 24.04.1956 at Nagpur, Maharashtra, son of Shri Arvind Shriniwas Bobde. Took B.A. and LL.B. Degrees from Nagpur University. Enrolled on the Roll of the Bar Council of Maharashtra in 1978. Practiced Law at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court with appearances at Bombay before the Principal Seat and before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for over 21 years. Designated as Senior Advocate in 1998. Elevated to the Bench of the Bombay High Court on 29th March, 2000, as Additional Judge. Sworn in as Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court on 16th October, 2012. Elevated as a Judge of Supreme Court of India on 12th April, 2013. Due to retire on 23rd April, 2021 (F/N). Landmark Judgment Pronounced by him in 2019 M/s D.J. Malpani v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Nashik, C.A. No. 5282 of 2005 on manufacture of goods falling under Chapter 24 of the Schedule of the Central Excise Act, 1944 Royal Sundaram Alliance Insurance Company Ltd. v. Mandala Yadagari Goud & ors. C.A. No. 6600 of 2015 on whether the age of the deceased or the age of the dependents would be taken into account for calculating the multiplier. Caretel Infotech Ltd. v. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited & Ors., C.A. No. 3588 of 2019 (@SLP (C) No. 46 of 2019) on endeavors of courts to give their own interpretation to contracts. Mahesh Dube v. Shivbodh and ors. Crl.A. No. 1104 of 2011, on section 456 (2) CrPC which provides that if the court trying the offence has not made such an order, the Court of appeal, confirmation or revision can also make such an order while disposing of the proceedings pending before it. Yogendra @Jogendra Singh v. The State of Madhya Pradesh., Crl.A. No. 84-85 of 2019 (@SLP (Crl.) No. 3167-3168 of 2015) observation on ‘rarest of the rare’.