www.alumni.du.ac.in / University of Delhi Alumni eZine 6 : 2018 alft 079 / DU Ach 025 Alma parens DU : alumnus Justice Ranjan Gogoi is Chief Justice of India from 3 October 2018 : in a brilliant line of alumni CJIs … ANOTHER FIRST, the First CJI from our Nation’s NorthEast ! The Hon’ble Mr Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been appointed to the Nation’s apex court’s highest office of Chief Justice of India and will assume this august, ever-so-crucially-significant office 3 October 2018 . The Hon’ble Mr Justice Ranjan Gogoi Chief Justice of India Designate alpix 0819 / 0819A BA His Hons and MA His St Stephen’s 1970 – 1975 LLB CLC 1978 Patron – in – chief The CLC Alumni Association University of Delhi Known to lawyers as “Guardian of the Bar” and son of the illustrious Keshab Chandra Gogoi, CM Assam 1982, Ranjan is a Don Bosco product and a proud Stephanian, History-scholar and topper at DU’s Campus Law Centre 1978, bringing 4 decades of fulsome Legal experience, which includes a significant role as amicus curiae to the Gauhati High Court to ensure that the then Tezpur Mental Hospital was upgraded to a proper research institute. Among his many jurisprudential interventions are those that ruled that no one can contest election without making a full and honest disclosure about his/her assets and educational and criminal antecedents ; he was also part of the Supreme Court Bench that restrained ruling parties from publishing photographs of political leaders or prominent persons in Govt-funded advertisements. Softspoken, straightforward and with a touch of steel, Ranjan will chief the Supreme Court of India and be Master of the Roster that counts as many as 9/Nine alumni among the 27 Hon’ble Judges of the Supreme Court of India. click: Ever so proud of Them ! Their Lordships Supreme Court of India Nine alumni Judges 2018 click: Jurisprudentially Ours .