Question

Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde is the ______ Chief Justice of India.
1. 48th
2. 47th
3. 50th
4. 46th

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : 47th

The Correct Answer is 47^th.

• Sharad Arvind Bobde is a judge from India who serves as India's 47th and acting Chief Justice. He is the former Chief Justice of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh.
• He is also the Chancellor of the National Law University of Maharashtra, Mumbai, and the National Law University of Maharashtra, Nagpur.
• He has been a member of the Supreme Court of India for eight years and is expected to retire on 23 April 2021.
• On 18 November 2019, he was nominated as the 47th Chief Justice of India, succeeding Ranjan Gogoi(46th CJI) after his retirement.
• Justice Bobde was part of the five-judge constitutional bench that heard and delivered the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case judgment dated November 9, 2019. 

• The Head of the Judicial Branch of the Government of India and the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of India shall be the Chief Justice of the Republic of India and the Highest-ranking Officer of the Federal Judiciary of India.
• In India, the first CJI was H. J. Kania. India's Supreme Court came into being on January 28, 1950.