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India gets new Chief Justice

Xinhua, December 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday.

The 63-year-old senior-most judge of the Supreme Court will have a tenure of over a year and is going to retire in January 2017.

Justice Thakur took over as the 43rd Chief Justice of India from Justice H.L. Dattu who retired Wednesday.

The new Chief Justice started his career as a lawyer in courts in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where he later became a judge.

He was subsequently transferred to the southern state of Karnataka and then to Delhi High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court in northern India, before being elevated as a Supreme Court judge.

India has an independent judiciary that has at times overruled decisions taken by the government, the most recent being the latter's initiative to appoint judges through a national commission. Endit