NEW DELHI: August 26 marks the last day of service for Chief Justice of India N V Ramana who is retiring on Friday. The CJI Ramana shared the bench with CJI-designate Justice UU Lalit & Justice Hima Kohli. On his final day as CJI N V Ramana delivered judgments in five cases 1) the PIL seeking a ban on ‘election freebies’, 2) the 2007 Gorakhpur riots case, 3) the Karnataka
Justice UU Lalit will become India s 49th CJI on Saturday, and he was speaking at a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) to bid farewell to outgoing CJI N V Ramana.
The event was attended by Supreme Court Judges Justices Kaul, Indira Banerjee, Sanjiv Khanna, S Ravindra Bhat, and Hima Kohli – all former judges of the Delhi High Court as well as the judges of the high court along with members of the Bar.