Ranjan Gogoi was born on 18 November 1954 and is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018.
28 Facts About Ranjan Gogoi
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Ranjan Gogoi is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020.
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Ranjan Gogoi's mother, Shanti Priya Gogoi, was a prominent social activist, who founded an NGO named SEWA, in 2000, two years after the death of Kesab Chandra Gogoi in 1998.
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Ranjan Gogoi enrolled at the bar in 1978 and practised at Gauhati High Court under advocate JP Bhattacharjee.
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Ranjan Gogoi began to practise independently in 1991 and became a senior counsel in 1999 at the court.
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Ranjan Gogoi was nominated to the Supreme Court in 2012 and was sworn in by S H Kapadia.
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Ranjan Gogoi was appointed Chief Justice of India in 2018 and served until 2019.
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Ranjan Gogoi's father was Kesab Chandra Gogoi, an Indian National Congress politician who served as Chief Minister of Assam from 13 January 1982 to 19 March 1982.
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Shanti Ranjan Gogoi founded the Socio Educational Welfare Association, an NGO which aimed to help marginalised communities, and was its president from 2002 to 2016.
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Ranjan Gogoi enrolled at the bar in 1978, and practiced at the Gauhati High Court under senior advocate JP Bhattacharjee.
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Ranjan Gogoi was made a permanent judge of Gauhati High Court on 28 February 2001.
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Ranjan Gogoi became acting Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court on 3 January 2011, after the retirement of Mukul Mudgal.
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Ranjan Gogoi was sworn in as Chief Justice on 12 February 2011 by Governor Jagannath Pahadia at Raj Bhavan, Haryana.
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In 2011, Ranjan Gogoi was on a division bench that was supposed to hear a PIL into the case, but the case was later referred to another bench.
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On 14 March 2011, Ranjan Gogoi was part of a division bench that directed that the Camelot project was in the catchment area of the Sukhna Lake.
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On 22 April 2011, Ranjan Gogoi was part of a bench that ordered that women are allowed to claim maternity leave benefits for the birth of their third child, while allowing a petition from a multipurpose health worker in Haryana.
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On 22 March 2012, Ranjan Gogoi was on a division bench that ordered that the schedule of the user fees of the Pinjore-Parwanoo bypass be published in an official gazette and notified in the newspapers.
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In October 2014, Ranjan Gogoi praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign.
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On 18 June 2019, Ranjan Gogoi met with the Chief Justice of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev, to discuss judicial cooperation between countries.
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On 22 June 2019, Ranjan Gogoi wrote three letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting an increase in the number of judges in the Supreme Court and requesting for the increase in the retirement age of High Court Judges from 62 to 65.
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Ranjan Gogoi succumbed to injuries at the Government Medical College Hospital, Thrissur, on 6 February 2011.
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Ranjan Gogoi was appointed to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on 23 July 2020.
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Ranjan Gogoi resigned in September 2021, and instead became a member on the committee of communications and information technology.
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Ranjan Gogoi resigned from the committee in May 2022, and on 5 May 2022 he again became a member on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.
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On 2 September 2020, following an RTI being filed by India Today, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat revealed that Ranjan Gogoi was the only member of the Rajya Sabha who does not take allowances or a salary.
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Ranjan Gogoi again suffered from the same disease in April 2011, when he was Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, and was admitted to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, and later was flown to the Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi for treatment.
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When Ranjan Gogoi became Chief Justice of India on 3 October 2018, he was one out of the 11 Supreme court justices who made their assets and finances public.
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Ranjan Gogoi disclosed he had no car, and the only property he had was gifted to him by his mother in June 2015.