Sathasivam to be next CJI

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New Delhi: Supreme Court judge P. Sathasivam will take over as Chief Justice of India (CJI) after the expiry of the tenure of incumbent Justice Altamas Kabir on July 18. He will be the first CJI from Tamil Nadu and will hold office as the 40th CJI till April 26 next year.
President Pranab Mukherjee has approved Justice Sathasivam’s appointment as the next CJI, official sources said. Justice Sathasivam, now 64, had joined as a permanent judge of the Madras high court in January 1996. He was transferred to the Punjab and Haryana high court in April 2007 and elevated as Supreme Court judge on August 21, 2007.
A campaigner for speedy justice, particularly at the level of the subordinate judiciary so as to help the poor litigant public, Justice Sathasivam has been recently quoting telling the newly recruited district judges and junior civil judges at the Andhra Pradesh judicial academy that with the increase of literacy rate and per capita income, the petitions coming before the courts would only rise.
Compute­risation of listed cases would help, he had said, citing the good experience in the Supreme Court in this aspect.
Sathasivam always disciplined: Mother

Erode: Eighty four-year-old Nach­aiammal, the pr­oud mother of Justice P. Sathasivam, expressed her joy over her son’s elevation as the Chief Justice of India here on Saturday.
 
“Ever since his schooldays, he has been doing things in a disciplined manner. He is a stickler for punctuality and sharp in grasping matters. We are happy for wh­at he has now become,” beamed Nac­ha­i­a­mmal, who lives at Kadappanallur village, near Bhavani, in Erode, the native place of the new CJI.
 
He has brought laurels to the state of Tamil Nadu, said the octogenarian mother.