(Current Affairs For SSC Exams) In The News, Dec. 2012 - Justice Altamas Kabir

In The News

December 2012

Topic : Justice Altamas Kabir

Justice Altamas Kabir has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of India on 13 September 2012.

He will take oath as 39th Chief Justice of India and assume his office on 29 September 2012 as a Successor of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia. S.H. Kapadia will relinquish from his office on 28 September 2012. Altamas Kabir at present is the senior-most Judge of the Supreme Court.

About Justice Altamas Kabir

Justice Altamas Kabir (64) is an M.A. LL.B from University of Calcutta. He started his career in the year 1973 as a practitioner in Criminal and Civil cases from District Court and Kolkata High Court. On 6 August 1990, he was appointed as the permanent Jude in High Court of Calcutta. He also was appointed as the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court on 1 March 2005. On 9 September 2005, he was appointed to be a judge in Supreme Court of India. Computerisation of High Court, Civil Court and other Courts of Calcutta happened under the guidance of Justice Kabir. On 14 January 2010, he was appointed as the executive Chairman of National Legal Services Authority.

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