JUSTICE DIPAK MISRA TO SUCCEED AS THE NEXT CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA

Justice Dipak Misra will succeed Chief Justice JS Khehar as the next Chief Justice of India.

An official order by the law ministry said Justice Misra will take over from Chief Justice Khehar who retires on August 27. He will hold office for the next 13 months, till 2 October 2018.

63-year-old Justice Misra was also among the three judges who were up all night in July 2013, giving a historic hearing to decide on terrorist Yakub Memon’s last-minute appeal against his hanging. Memon was convicted in 1993 Mumbai blasts, in which 257 people were killed.