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New Delhi: The Centre on August 8, cleared the file for appointment of Justice Deepak Mishra as the 45th Chief Justice of India with effect from August 28, 2017.
Justice Mishra was elevated to the Supreme Court on October 10, 2011. He enrolled as an Advocate on February 14, 1977 and appointed an Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court in 1996. After a stint in the Madhya Pradesh High Court, he became a permanent judge in December 1997 before assuming charge as the Chief Justice of Patna High Court in 2009 and later on served as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
Conveying the thought behind the welfare initiative, Justice Mishra once said,” No under trial or prisoner shall remain without legal aid. Every case has a human face” He is the current executive chairman of the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) .
Justice Mishra wrote history when he led the three judges bench which heard Yakub Menon, the sole condemned man in the Bombay blast case, who came knocking of the Supreme Court’s door for reprieve in the wee hours of the day he was hanged to death.
In May 2017 Justice Mishra confirm the death penalty of four convicts in the brutal Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
Justice Mishra also hit head line when the bench he was leading ordered that patrons should stand up in respect and committed patriotism and nationalism when the National Anthem and National Flag are featured before shows in cinema theaters across the country.
