The Chief Justices of India

The Chief Justices of India

1 H. J. Kania ( 1950-1951)
2 M. Patanjali Sastri (1951- 1954)
3 Mehr Chand Mahajan (1954- 1954)
4 Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (1954- 1956)
5 Sudhi Ranjan Das (1956- 1959)
6 Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (1959-1964)
7 P. B. Gajendragadkar (1964-1966)
8 Amal Kumar Sarkar (1966-1966)
9 Koka Subba Rao (1966-1967)
10 Kailas Nath Wanchoo (1967-1968)
11 Mohammad Hidayatullah (1968- 1970)
12 Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (1970 – 1971)
13 Sarv Mittra Sikri (1971-1973)
14 Ajit Nath Ray (1973 -1977)
15 Mirza Hameedullah Beg (1977-1978)
16 Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (1978 -1985)
17 Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (1985-1986)
18 Raghunandan Swarup Pathak (1986-1989)
19 Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah (1989-1989)
20 Sabyasachi Mukharji (1989-1990)
21 Ranganath Misra (1990-1991)
22 Kamal Narain Singh (1991-1991)
23 Madhukar Hiralal Kania (1991 -1992)
24 Lalit Mohan Sharma (1992-1993)
25 Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah (1993-1994)
26 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (1994 -1997)
27 Jagdish Sharan Verma ( 1997 -1998)
28 Madan Mohan Punchhi (1998-1998)
29 Adarsh Sein Anand (1998-2001)
30 Sam Piroj Bharucha (2001-2002)
31 Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (2002-2002)
32 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (2002-2002)
33 V. N. Khare (2002 -2004)
34 S. Rajendra Babu (2004-2004)
35 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (2004 -2005)
36 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (2005-2007)
37 K. G. Balakrishnan (2007 -2010)
38 S. H. Kapadia (2010 -2012)
39 Altamas Kabir (2012- 2013)
40 P. Sathasivam (2013