List of Chief Justices of India

No.NameFromTo
1Harilal Jekisundas Kania
(1890–1951)
26 January 19506 November 1951
2Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri
(1889–1963)
7 November 19513 January 1954
3Mehr Chand Mahajan
(1889–1967)
4 January 195422 December 1954
4Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
(1891–1956)
23 December 195431 January 1956‡
5Sudhi Ranjan Das
(1894–1977)
1 February 195630 September 1959
6Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
(1899–1986)
1 October 195931 January 1964
7Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar
(1901–1981)
1 February 196415 March 1966
8Amal Kumar Sarkar
(1901–2001)
16 March 196629 June 1966
9Koka Subba Rao
(1902–1976)
30 June 196611 April 1967‡
10Kailas Nath Wanchoo
(1903–1988)
12 April 196724 February 1968
11Mohammad Hidayatullah
(1905–1992)
25 February 196816 December 1970
12Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah
(1906–1991)
17 December 197021 January 1971
13Sarv Mittra Sikri
(1908–1992)
22 January 197125 April 1973
14Ajit Nath Ray
(1912–2009)
26 April 197327 January 1977
15Mirza Hameedullah Beg
(1913–1988)
29 January 197721 February 1978
16Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud
(1920–2008)
22 February 197811 July 1985
17Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati
(1921–2017)
12 July 198520 December 1986
18Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
(1924–2007)
21 December 198618 June 1989‡
19Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah
(1924–1997)
19 June 198917 December 1989
20Sabyasachi Mukharji
(1927–1990)
18 December 198925 September 1990
21Ranganath Misra
(1926–2012)
26 September 199024 November 1991
22Kamal Narain Singh
(1926–)
25 November 199112 December 1991
23Madhukar Hiralal Kania
(1927–2016)
13 December 199117 November 1992
24Lalit Mohan Sharma
(1928–2008)
18 November 199211 February 1993
25Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah
(1929–)
12 February 199324 October 1994
26Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
(1932–)
25 October 199424 March 1997
27Jagdish Sharan Verma
(1933–2013)
25 March 199717 January 1998
28Madan Mohan Punchhi
(1933–2015)
18 January 19989 October 1998
29Adarsh Sein Anand
(1936–2017)
10 October 199831 October 2001
30Sam Piroj Bharucha
(1937–)
1 November 20015 May 2002
31Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
(1937–)
6 May 20027 November 2002
32Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
(1937–)
8 November 200218 December 2002
33Vishweshwar Nath Khare
(1939–)
19 December 20021 May 2004
34S. Rajendra Babu
(1939–)
2 May 200431 May 2004
35Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
(1940–)
1 June 200431 October 2005
36Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
(1942–2015)
1 November 200513 January 2007
37Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan
(1945–)
14 January 200712 May 2010
38Sarosh Homi Kapadia
(1947–2016)
12 May 201028 September 2012
39Altamas Kabir
(1948–2017)
29 September 201218 July 2013
40Palanisamy Gounder Sathasivam
(1949–)
19 July 201326 April 2014
41Rajendra Mal Lodha
(1949–)
27 April 201427 September 2014
42Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu
(1950–)
28 September 20142 December 2015
43Tirath Singh Thakur
(1952–)
3 December 20153 January 2017
44Jagdish Singh Khehar
(1952–)
4 January 201727 August 2017
45Dipak Misra
(1953–)
28 August 20172 October 2018
46Ranjan Gogoi
(1954–)
3 October 201817 November 2019
47Sharad Arvind Bobde
(1956–)
18 November 2019Incumbent

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