New Delhi:

Senior Supreme Courtroom choose Justice Sanjiv Khanna will take oath because the 51st Chief Justice of India on November 11, however his mother and father needed him to be a Charted Accountant. They believed a authorized profession was stuffed with challenges and hardship, sources near him stated. However Sanjeev Khanna selected to embrace the legislation, impressed by his uncle, Supreme Courtroom’s Justice HR Khanna.

“He all the time thought of his uncle a great and used to keenly observe his work,” sources instructed NDTV. And that concerned not solely the legislation. “Justice HR Khanna used to shine not solely his footwear but in addition that of different relations. He used to clean his personal garments as nicely,” sources stated.

Sanjiv Khanna has preserved all of the copies of Justice HR Khanna’s judgments, notes, registers, sources stated. He needs to donate them to the highest courtroom’s library as soon as he demits workplace.

In 2019, Justice Sanjiv Khanna spent his first day as a Supreme Courtroom choose in the identical courtroom room the place his uncle labored. Justice HR Khanna’s portrait is there within the room, however Sanjiv Khanna by no means bought his photograph clicked there. He would accomplish that earlier than he retires, sources stated. Sanjiv Khanna is anticipated to demit workplace on 13 Could 2025. 

Justice Sanjeev Khanna’s mom Saroj Khanna was a lecturer at Girl Shri Ram Faculty. His father Devraj Khanna was a lawyer who later turned a choose of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom. 

Justice HR Khanna was a part of the bench that gave a unanimous choice within the “habeas corpus case” of ADM, Jabalpur vs Shivkant Shukla, in 1976. 

When Indira Gandhi’s authorities appointed Justice MH Beg as the highest choose of the nation in January 1977, Justice HK Khanna had resigned.