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Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954) is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India for seven years, firstly as a judge from 2012 to 2018, and as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months from 2018 to 2019. He is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge on Gauhati High Court, and then was transferred as a judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court, where he later became chief justice. He is serving as a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.

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  • Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954) is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India for seven years, firstly as a judge from 2012 to 2018, and as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months from 2018 to 2019. He is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge on Gauhati High Court, and then was transferred as a judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court, where he later became chief justice. He is serving as a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha. Born and raised in Dibrugarh, Gogoi was from a political family and he descends from the Ahom dynasty. His maternal grandparents were both state legislators, and his grandmother, Padma Kumari Gohain, was one of the first female MLAs and one of the first female ministers in Assam. His father, Kesab Chandra Gogoi served as Chief Minister of Assam for two months in 1982. Gogoi is the only chief justice, to have been the son of a Chief Minister. His mother, Shanti Priya Gogoi, was a prominent social activist, who founded an NGO named SEWA, in 2000, two years after the death of Kesab Chandra Gogoi in 1998. One of five children, Gogoi’s four siblings, also excelled in the respective careers. He is also the first chief justice from Northeast India. Gogoi studied at Cotton University and later completed his higher studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He enrolled at the bar in 1978 and practised at Gauhati High Court under advocate JP Bhattacharjee. He began to practise independently in 1991 and became a senior counsel in 1999 at the court. He served as a judge of the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010 and a judge of Punjab and Haryana High court from 2010 to 2011. He was appointed Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2011 and served until 2012. His tenure on Punjab and Haryana High Court saw orders which questioned the CBI’s promotion of SPS Rathore, despite the Ruchika Girhotra case, as well as several other judgements. He was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2012 and was sworn in by S. H. Kapadia. Gogoi made several important and landmark judgements during his tenure including the updating of the National Register of Citizens for Assam, and the Soumya Murder case. He also served on the bench that created special courts to try MLAs and MPs, and ruled against the Uttar Pradesh Government law that former Chief Ministers should be allowed to occupy government bungalows. He was appointed Chief Justice of India in 2018 and served until 2019. During his tenure, he oversaw several more important judgements, including the judgement on the Ayodhya dispute and the Rafale deal, before retiring in 2019. In 2020 he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, and has served on the committee on communications and information technology, and the committee on external affairs. He is the third Supreme Court judge to serve the Rajya Sabha, and the first to be nominated to his seat, after Ranganath Mishra and Baharul Islam, who were elected as members of the Indian National Congress. He has also written an autobiography named "Justice for the Judge: An Autobiography". In 2019, he was listed as the third most powerful person in India. (en)
  • Ranjan Gogoi adalah hakim Mahkamah Agung India. Ia diangkat sebagai hakim di mahkamah tersebut pada tanggal 23 April 2012. Ia lalu terpilih sebagai Ketua Hakim Mahkamah Agung India pada tanggal 03 Oktober 2018. Masa baktinya sebagai hakim di mahkamah tersebut kemudian berakhir pada tanggal 17 November 2019. (in)
  • Ranjan Gogoi é um jurista indiano que atuou como 46.º Chefe de justiça da Índia. O seu mandato como Chefe de Justiça começou em 3 de outubro de 2018 e terminou em 17 de novembro de 2019. Em 9 de novembro de 2019, o colégio de cinco juízes chefiado por ele proferiu veredicto no histórico e controverso caso de disputa de Ayodhya. Ele, em conjunto com outros três juízes, realizou a histórica conferência de imprensa na crise do Supremo Tribunal da Índia em 2018. (pt)
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  • Ranjan Gogoi adalah hakim Mahkamah Agung India. Ia diangkat sebagai hakim di mahkamah tersebut pada tanggal 23 April 2012. Ia lalu terpilih sebagai Ketua Hakim Mahkamah Agung India pada tanggal 03 Oktober 2018. Masa baktinya sebagai hakim di mahkamah tersebut kemudian berakhir pada tanggal 17 November 2019. (in)
  • Ranjan Gogoi é um jurista indiano que atuou como 46.º Chefe de justiça da Índia. O seu mandato como Chefe de Justiça começou em 3 de outubro de 2018 e terminou em 17 de novembro de 2019. Em 9 de novembro de 2019, o colégio de cinco juízes chefiado por ele proferiu veredicto no histórico e controverso caso de disputa de Ayodhya. Ele, em conjunto com outros três juízes, realizou a histórica conferência de imprensa na crise do Supremo Tribunal da Índia em 2018. (pt)
  • Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954) is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India for seven years, firstly as a judge from 2012 to 2018, and as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months from 2018 to 2019. He is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge on Gauhati High Court, and then was transferred as a judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court, where he later became chief justice. He is serving as a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha. (en)
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