♦ Justice Surya Kant took oath as 53rd Chief Justice of India at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on 24 November 2025. He was administered the oath of office of the Chief Justice of India by President Droupadi Murmu. He has succeeded Chief Justice B.R. Gavai. 

♦ Chief Justice Surya Kant will demit office on February 9, 2027, after turning 65. He was born on February 10, 1962, in Haryana's Hisar. 

♦ He was then appointed the chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in 2018.

♦ Elevated as a Supreme Court judge in 2019, he has been part of key verdicts, including the recent presidential reference on the powers of the governor and president in dealing with bills passed by a state assembly. He was also part of the bench that kept the colonial-era sedition law in abeyance, directing that no new cases be registered under it until a government review.