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President Droupadi Murmu hosted a dinner at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre on Monday to welcome the new Chief Justice of India Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai.
Many other dignitaries including Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Minister of State for Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal, former CJI Sanjiv Khanna, Supreme Court judges and Chief Justices of High Courts attended the dinner.
CJI Gavai had delivered many landmark judgments including upholding the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 that bestowed special status to Jammu and Kashmir.He was sworn in as the 52nd Chief Justice of India on May 14.
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