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Justice Khanna is chairman of legal services authority

New Delhi, December 27 President Droupadi Murmu has nominated Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, as the Executive Chairperson of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). Justice Khanna would replace Justice SK Kaul who retired on...
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New Delhi, December 27

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President Droupadi Murmu has nominated Justice Sanjiv Khanna, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, as the Executive Chairperson of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).

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Justice Khanna would replace Justice SK Kaul who retired on December 25. It has been a convention to appoint the second senior-most SC judge to the post. According to the Legal Services Authority Act of 1987, the Chief Justice of India is the Patron-in-Chief of NALSA. The President, in consultation with the CJI, appoints an active or retired SC judge as the Executive Chairman of NALSA.

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