Justice T S Thakur will take over as the next Chief Justice of India tomorrow. He will be administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Justice Thakur will succeed Chief Justice HL Dattu who demitted office today. He will have a tenure of over a year. <br/><br/>Justice Thakur started his career as a Civil, Criminal, Constitutional and Taxation lawyer in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 1990. Justice Thakur was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in 1994. <br/><br/>He has also served as Judge in Karnataka and Delhi High Courts. In 2008 he was appointed as the acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and took over as Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in 2008. He was elevated as Judge of Supreme Court in 2009. Justice Thakur has been associated with a host of significant judgments. He led the bench which had delivered the verdict on reforming the BCCI following the IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal.