Justice TS Thakur has been recommended for Chief Justice of India by HL Dattu, who will retire on December 2. It is customary and a convention for the outgoing CJI to name his successor. The Centre will now process the recommendation and then send it for approval of the President, following which a notification will be issued. Justice Thakur will have a tenure of one year and one month as the Chief Justice of India. Justice Thakur, who has served as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 2009.

Had the NJAC law been upheld in whole by the Bench, it would have been the six-member Commission, and not the CJI, who would have recommended the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Thakur, who is known for his patient, detailed and fair hearings of cases, would be the 43rd Chief Justice of India. He would be in office till January 4, 2017.

Justice T.S. Thakur heralded the overhaul in the Indian cricket administration by holding that no office-bearer of the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) should have any commercial interests in the game. The judgment on January 22, 2015 demanded institutional integrity from the BCCI and classified the Board’s administration of cricket in India as a public function.

Justice Thakur also heads the bench hearing the Sahara-SEBI dispute, which is steering the course for Sahara Group to return Rs. 36,000 crore back to its allegedly duped investors. He also heads the bench monitoring the Saradha chit fund scam and the multi-crore NRHM scam.

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