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Former Chief Justices of India - year of retirement: GK quiz

15 questions, each built from one row of the official list below — the correct option is that row exactly as the source prints it, and the wrong options are other rows of the same list. No AI wrote these questions. Free: your first 2 answers need no account, then sign up free to finish; your answers are not saved anywhere.

Source: Supreme Court of India - Former Chief Justices of India ↗ · read on 27 Oct 2026 · the page says: Last Updated: Oct 26, 2026

  1. Question 1 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Y.K. Sabharwal demit office?

  2. Question 2 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah demit office?

  3. Question 3 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice A.N. Ray demit office?

  4. Question 4 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice K.G. Balakrishnan demit office?

  5. Question 5 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud demit office?

  6. Question 6 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Dipak Mishra demit office?

  7. Question 7 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi demit office?

  8. Question 8 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde demit office?

  9. Question 9 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice S.H. Kapadia demit office?

  10. Question 10 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania demit office?

  11. Question 11 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice N.V. Ramana demit office?

  12. Question 12 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice M. Hidayatullah demit office?

  13. Question 13 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice M. Patanjali Sastri demit office?

  14. Question 14 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice P. Sathasivam demit office?

  15. Question 15 of 15

    In which year did former Chief Justice of India Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai demit office?

The official list (24 rows)

Former Chief Justice of IndiaYear of retirement (DoR)
Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania1951
Justice M. Patanjali Sastri1954
Justice P.B. Gajendragadkar1966
Justice M. Hidayatullah1970
Justice S.M. Sikri1973
Justice A.N. Ray1977
Justice Y.V. Chandrachud1985
Justice P.N. Bhagwati1986
Justice Ranganath Misra1991
Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah1994
Justice A.M. Ahmadi1997
Justice J.S. Verma1998
Justice A.S. Anand2001
Justice Y.K. Sabharwal2007
Justice K.G. Balakrishnan2010
Justice S.H. Kapadia2012
Justice P. Sathasivam2014
Justice T.S. Thakur2017
Justice Dipak Mishra2018
Justice Ranjan Gogoi2019
Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde2021
Justice N.V. Ramana2022
Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud2024
Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai2025

Left out or changed by Shishya: Spare topic (replaces nuclear-power-stations / indian-national-days). Value switched from 'year took office' to 'year of retirement': the page's 'Term of Office' prints (DoA) = date of appointment to the Supreme Court for most CJIs (e.g. Kapadia 18-12-2003), not the date they became CJI, so a CJI start year cannot be read from it; (DoR) is the retirement date, which ends the CJI tenure. Question uses 'demit office' since DoR also covers a CJI whose tenure ended other than by retirement. 24 of 53 former CJIs picked; current CJI Justice Surya Kant left out (still in office). Reverse null because some years repeat (e.g. 1954, 1966, 2017, 2022 have two CJIs).

Names and spellings are kept as the source prints them. Spotted a change on the official page? The list is re-read from the source, never from other sites.

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