Sanjiv Khanna is a retired Indian jurist who served as the 51st Chief Justice of India from 11 November 2024 to 13 May 2025. He was the ex officio Patron-in-Chief of the National Legal Services Author
Official portrait, 2024
President Droupadi Murmu administering the oath of office to Justice Sanjiv Khanna as the Chief Justice of India.
Hans Raj Khanna was an Indian judge, jurist and advocate who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and attempted to uphold civil liberties during the time of Emergency in India in a lone dis
Sanjiv Khanna
…Sanjiv Khanna was born on 14 May 1960. Khanna's uncle was Hans Raj Khanna, a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Hans Raj, who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and famously delivered the lone dissenting…