With barely a month left for the retirement of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai, the Centre on Thursday initiated the process for the appointment of his successor.

The government has formally written to CJI Gavai, who is due to retire on November 23 on attaining the age of 65, to name his successor, sources said.

According to the memorandum of procedure on the appointment and transfer of Supreme Court and High Court judges, the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court considered fit to hold the office should be appointed as the CJI. CJI Gavai is expected to recommend Justice Surya Kant — the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court — as his successor. Born in a middle-class family on February 10, 1962, in Hisar district of Haryana, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in law in 1984 from Maharishi

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