{"id":943,"date":"2025-11-24T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:35:26","slug":"justice-surya-kant-sworn-in-as-the-53rd-chief-justice-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Justice Surya Kant Sworn In as the 53rd Chief Justice of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JJustice Surya Kant was sworn in as the 53rd Chief Justice of India on 24 November 2025 at Rashtrapati Bhavan\u2019s Ganatantra Mandap. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath during a formal ceremony at the presidential palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-1536x1040.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/povindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CJI-Oth-2-1-2048x1386.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With this, Justice Surya Kant officially assumes leadership of the Supreme Court of India and its administrative functioning, marking the beginning of a new term for the country\u2019s judicial leadership.<br><br>Image Credit: PIB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JJustice Surya Kant was sworn in as the 53rd Chief Justice of India on 24 November 2025 at Rashtrapati Bhavan\u2019s Ganatantra Mandap. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath during a formal ceremony at the presidential palace. With this, Justice Surya Kant officially assumes leadership of the Supreme Court of India and its administrative functioning, marking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/povindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}