New Delhi: Justice Ranjan Gogoi was Wednesday sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India.He succeeds Justice Dipak Misra.

President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to the 63-year-old Justice Gogoi, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, at a brief ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Darbar Hall in the presence of several dignitaries including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan , former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and several ministers in the Modi government.

Justice Gogoi will have a tenure of a little over 13 months and would retire on November 17, 2019.

Born on November 18, 1954, Justice Gogoi began his career as a Permanent Judge of the Gauhati High Court in February 2001.

He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2010 and was appointed Chief Justice there in 2011. He came to the Supreme Court as a judge on April 23, 2012.

As per the norm, the name of Justice Gogoi, the senior-most after former CJI Dipak Misra, was recommended by the latter and the appointment was then confirmed by President Kovind in September this year.