CJI Ramana critiques Supreme Court working amid Covid-19

Justice N V Ramana was on Saturday sworn in as forty eighth Chief Justice of India. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of workplace to Justice Ramana at a ceremony held in Rashtrapathi Bhavan.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad have been additionally in attendance on the ceremony, held in line with Covid-19 protocol.
Justice Ramana succeeds former CJI S A Bobde within the prime workplace. He will maintain workplace until August 26, 2022 – for just a little over 16 months.
Soon after taking on, CJI Ramana met 5 senior colleagues within the Supreme Court and reviewed the working of the court docket within the mild of the pandemic. Justices R F Nariman, U U Lalit, A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao attended the assembly.
Sources stated the assembly took inventory of employees availability, amongst others, as many workers have been on go away both as a result of they’re contaminated with Covid-19 or as a result of some member of the family is affected.
The judges will meet to evaluation the scenario every now and then.
Born right into a household of agriculturalists in Ponnavaram village in Krishna district in undivided Andhra Pradesh on August 27, 1957, Justice Ramana enrolled as an advocate on February 10, 1983, after finishing authorized schooling and practiced in AP High Court, Central Administrative Tribunal, AP state administrative tribunal and the Supreme Court in civil, felony, constitutional, labour, service and election issues with specialisation in constitutional, felony, service and inter-state river legal guidelines.
In 1979-80, he additionally labored as a journalist with Telugu every day ‘Eenadu’.
Besides serving on the panel of legal professionals for numerous authorities businesses, he put in time as extra standing counsel for the Union authorities, standing counsel for the Railways in CAT in Hyderabad and as extra advocate common of AP.

He was elevated as a everlasting decide of AP High Court on June 27, 2000 and Acting Chief Justice of AP HC from March 10, 2013 to May 20, 2013.
Justice Ramana subsequently served as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court earlier than being appointed as a Supreme Court decide on February 17, 2014.

During his time period within the prime court docket, Justice Ramana has been part of many important rulings, together with on organising of particular courts for fast-tracking felony instances towards MPs and MLAs, bringing the CJI’s workplace amenable to RTI Act, lifting web restrictions in J&Okay, and championing girls’s rights.