New Delhi, April 11: Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Monday said that he will not retire from public life after he demits judicial office later this year, reports Bar and Bench.
The CJI opined that the retirement age of 65 years for Supreme Court judges ought to be reconsidered and that he still has energy in him to continue in public life.
“I think 65 years is too early for someone to retire! I worked almost 22 years as a High Court judge, Supreme Court judge and CJI…we know our date of retirement at the time of joining. There are no exceptions. I am still left with decent amount of energy. I love to be among the people. It has been my nature since student days. One thing I can say for certain is that retirement from the judiciary does not mean that I will retire from public life,” he said.
The CJI was speaking at the second Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation webinar on Comparative Approaches of Supreme Courts of World’s Largest and Oldest Democracies – an event which had United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as the other speaker.
CJI Ramana is slated to retire on August 26 this year. He was born on August 27, 1957 to agriculturist parents in Ponnavaram village, situated in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh.
He enrolled as an advocate in February 1983 and practiced before the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Supreme Court and various tribunals. He was Additional Standing Counsel for the Central government and Standing Counsel for the Railways in the Central Administrative Tribunal at Hyderabad. He also served as Additional Advocate General for Andhra Pradesh.
He was appointed as a permanent judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on June 27, 2000. He was made Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on September 2, 2013 and was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on February 17, 2014.
He took over as Chief Justice of India on April 24, 2021.
