New Delhi:
Senior Supreme Court docket choose Justice Sanjiv Khanna will take oath because the 51st Chief Justice of India on November 11, however his mother and father needed him to be a Charted Accountant. They believed a authorized profession was stuffed with challenges and hardship, sources near him mentioned. However Sanjiv Khanna selected to embrace the regulation, impressed by his uncle, Supreme Court docket’s Justice HR Khanna.
“He all the time thought-about his uncle an excellent and used to keenly comply with his work,” sources advised NDTV. And that concerned not solely the regulation. “Justice HR Khanna used to shine not solely his sneakers but in addition that of different members of the family. He used to scrub his personal garments as effectively,” sources mentioned.
Sanjiv Khanna has preserved all of the copies of Justice HR Khanna’s judgments, notes, registers, sources mentioned. He needs to donate them to the highest court docket’s library as soon as he demits workplace.
In 2019, Justice Sanjiv Khanna spent his first day as a Supreme Court docket choose in the identical court docket room the place his uncle labored. Justice HR Khanna’s portrait is there within the room, however Sanjiv Khanna by no means received his photograph clicked there. He would achieve this earlier than he retires, sources mentioned. Sanjiv Khanna is predicted to demit workplace on 13 Could 2025.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna’s mom Saroj Khanna was a lecturer at Girl Shri Ram Faculty. His father Devraj Khanna was a lawyer who later grew to become a choose of the Delhi Excessive Court docket.
Justice HR Khanna gave a dissenting judgment within the “habeas corpus case” of ADM, Jabalpur vs Shivkant Shukla, in 1976.
When Indira Gandhi’s authorities appointed Justice MH Beg as the highest choose of the nation in January 1977, Justice HK Khanna had resigned.