New Delhi: Outgoing Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Friday said that he was leaving the institution “with a full sense of satisfaction and contentment” and as a “student of justice” on conclusion of his journey as a lawyer and a judge that spanned nearly four decades.

\"When I leave this courtroom for the last time, I leave this court all with full sense of satisfaction, the full sense of contentment that I have done whatever which I could have done for this country…Thank you. Thank you very much,\" a visibly emotional Justice Gavai said in the courtroom packed with law officers, senior advocates, and young lawyers.

On the last working day on Friday, the CJI, choked with emotions, said, he always believed that everybody, every judge, every lawyer, is governed by the principles on whi

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