Justice Surya Kant took oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Monday (November 24, 2025). He took his oath in Hindi.
Justice Surya Kant will remain in the post for nearly 15 months. He will demit office on February 9, 2027 on attaining the age of 65 years.
On November 22, 2025, Justice Surya Kant said one of the biggest challenges in his tenure as top Judge would be to bring 90,000 pending cases in the Supreme Court down to a “manageable” number.
Born on February 10, 1962 in Hisar district of Haryana to a middle-class family, Justice Kant went from being a small-town lawyer to the country’s highest judicial office, where he has been part of several verdicts and orders of national importance and constitutional matters. He also has the distinction of standing ‘first class first’ in his Master’s degree in law in 2011 from Kurukshetra University.
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