By Admin 
Justice Surya Kant has become the new Chief Justice of India. On Monday (November 24, 2025), President Draupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to him as CJI. He took oath as CJI in the presence of Vice President CP Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, BJP President JP Nadda, former President Ramnath Kovind and former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai’s tenure as CJI ended on November 23, 2025. He remained in this post for six and a half months. Justice Surya Kant’s tenure as CJI will be for about one and a half years. He will retire on February 9, 2027. At present he is 63 years old.
CJI Surya Kant was born on February 10, 1962 in Hisar, Haryana. He was born in a normal family. Former CJI BR Gavai, while talking about his friendship with Justice Surya Kant in his farewell, had said that both of them come from very normal families.
Justice Gavai had told that CJI Surya Kant studied in a government school in Hisar and he himself studied in a municipal school in Amravati, Maharashtra. CJI Surya Kant graduated from Government Post Graduate College, Hisar in 1981 and then obtained Bachelor’s degree in Law in 1984. He studied law from Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak in 1984. In the year 2000, he became the youngest Advocate General of Haryana.