New Delhi: Justice Altamas Kabir,the senior most judge of
Supreme court will be the new Chief Justice of India and will assume charge Sep
29 2012.
Justice Kabir, born on July 19, 1948 at Kolkata, did his LLB
and MA from University of Calcutta.He was enrolled at the Bar on Aug 1, 1973
and was made a permanent judge of Calcutta High Court on Aug 6, 1990. Justice
Kabir assumed the office of acting Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on
January 11, 2005. He was elevated as Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court on
March 01, 2005 and was made a judge of the Supreme Court of India on September
09, 2005.
Justice Kabir was responsible for the computerization of the
Calcutta High Court and the City Civil Court and other Courts in Kolkata.
He was appointed as Executive Chairman of National Legal
Services Authority on January 14, 2010. Justice Kabir headed a bench, which
recently decided the case of disqualification of MLAs by the Speaker of the
Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The Bench quashed the Speaker's order on
disqualification of MLAs who had defected from BJP.
