<span style="color: #222222;">Justice Ranjan Gogoi will be the next Chief Justice of India. Law Ministry today notified the appointment of Justice Gogoi. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He will succeed Chief Justice Dipak Misra, who will retire on 2nd of next month. Justice Gogoi is the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court after Chief Justice Misra. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He will assume charge on 3rd October and will have a tenure of nearly 13 months.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Justice Gogoi joined the Bar in 1978 and practised mainly in the Gauhati High Court. He was appointed as Permanent Judge of Gauhati High Court in February 2001. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was transferred to Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2010 and later was appointed as Chief Justice there. He was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court in April 2012.</span><br />''