New Delhi: Outgoing Chief Justice of India Justice B R Gavai on Friday said he was leaving the institution “with a full sense of satisfaction and contentment” and as a “student of justice” at the conclusion of a legal and judicial career spanning nearly four decades.

At a packed ceremonial bench that included Chief Justice-designate Surya Kant and Justice K Vinod Chandran, Justice Gavai said the warm tributes and poems by Attorney General R Venkataramani and senior advocate Kapil Sibal had left his “voice choking with emotions”.

“When I leave this courtroom for the last time… I leave this court with a full sense of satisfaction, a full sense of contentment that I have done whatever I could have done for this country… Thank you. Thank you very much,” the visibly emotional CJI told a court

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