Jagdish Singh Khehar

Jagdish Singh Khehar
44th Chief Justice of India
In office 4 January 2017 – 27 August 2017
Appointed by	Pranab Mukherjee
Preceded by	T. S. Thakur
Succeeded by	Dipak Misra
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office 13 September 2011 – 3 January 2017
Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court
In office 8 August 2010 – 12 September 2011
Preceded by	P. D. Dinakaran
Succeeded by	Vikramajit Sen
7th Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court
In office 29 November 2009 – 7 August 2010
Preceded by	Tarun Agarwala (acting)
Succeeded by	Barin Ghosh
Personal details
Born	(1952-08-28) 28 August 1952 (age 71) Nairobi, British Kenya, now Nairobi, Kenya[1]
Nationality	Indian (1965-present); Kenyan (1963-1965); British (1952-1963)
Alma mater	Panjab University, Chandigarh
Occupation	Judge
Religion	Sikhism
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Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 28 August 1952) is a former senior advocate and a former judge, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of India in 2017.^[2][3] Khehar is the first chief justice from the Sikh community.^[4][5] He has been a judge in Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 27 August 2017 upon superannuation.^[6] He served for a brief period but gave many landmark judgements such as the Triple Talaq and the Right to Privacy verdict. He was succeeded by Justice Dipak Misra.