All you need to know about Ranjan Gogoi, the new chief justice of India

He did his schooling in Dibrugarh’s Don Bosco School before joining St Stephens College in Delhi University where he studied history

Justice Gogoi was enrolled as an advocate in 1978 and practised in the Gauhati High Court on constitutional, taxation and company matters.

On February 28, 2001, he was appointed as a permanent judge of the Gauhati High Court on. On September 9, 2010, he was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

He was appointed as Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court on February 12, 2011 and then a judge of the Supreme Court on April 23, 2012.

Justice Gogoi will be the first judge from northeast to hold the position of Chief Justice of India.

Earlier, speculation over Justice Gogoi's appointment as the next CJI arose after the court's four most senior judges, including Justice Gogoi, called a press conference in January and criticised Justice Misra on various issues, especially the manner of allocation of cases to certain benches.

Justices J Chelameswar (since retired), Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph were the others who addressed the press conference, perhaps a first in the history of the Indian judiciary.