Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952) was the forty-fourth Chief Justice of India, serving from January to August 2017, and the first Sikh to hold the office. He was appointed a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court's Chandigarh bench in 1999, served as Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court from 2009 to 2010 and of the Karnataka High Court from 2010 to 2011, and joined the Supreme Court of India in 2011. His tenure included the Right to Privacy verdict and the ruling striking down instant triple talaq.
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Jagdish Singh Khehar is an Indian jurist, who served as the 44th Chief Justice of India from 4 January 2017 to 27 August 2017. He was the first Sikh Chief Justice of India. He has been a judge in Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 27 August 2017 upon superannuation. He served for a brief period but gave many landmark judgements such as the Triple Talaq and the Right to Privacy verdicts. He was succeeded by Justice Dipak Misra. As Chief Justice of India, he also administered oath of office to 14th President of India Ram Nath Kovind.
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