Sanjiv Khanna
Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Judge of Supreme Court of India
Assumed office
18 January 2019
Nominated byRanjan Gogoi
Appointed byRam Nath Kovind
Judge of Delhi High Court
In office
24 June 2005 – 17 January 2019
Nominated byRamesh Chandra Lahoti
Appointed byA P J Abdul Kalam
Personal details
Born (1960-05-14) 14 May 1960
New Delhi, India
Alma materUniversity of Delhi

Sanjiv Khanna (born 14 May 1960) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former judge of Delhi High Court, also a position held by his father Dev Raj Khanna. Also, he is the ex officio executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority.

Early life

He completed his schooling from Delhi's Modern School, Barakhamba Road in the year 1977. After graduating in the year 1980 from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, he studied law at Campus Law Centre of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. His father Justice Dev Raj Khanna retired as a judge from Delhi High Court in 1985 and his mother Mrs. Saroj Khanna worked as a Hindi lecturer at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.

Career

He was enrolled as an Advocate in the Bar Council of Delhi in the year 1983. On 24 June 2005, he was elevated as an additional judge of Delhi High Court and made permanent on 20 February 2006. He was elevated as a judge of Supreme Court of India on 18 January 2019. He is in line to become the Chief Justice of India after the retirement of Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud. Khanna is also the nephew of a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, Justice Hans Raj Khanna, who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and famously delivered the lone dissenting judgement in the ADM Jabalpur v. Shiv Kant Shukla case, popularly known as the Habeas Corpus case, in 1976 and was superseded to the office of the Chief Justice of India by M. H. Beg at the behest of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, protesting which he resigned from the court in early 1977.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "CJ & Sitting Judges". Delhi High Court. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "SC recommends names of Justices Maheshwari, Sanjiv Khanna as top court judges". Samanwaya Rautray. The Economic Times. 12 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  3. ↑ "7 Next CJIs". Supreme Court Observer. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
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