NEW DELHI: Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was on Sunday sworn in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee.
“I will sit as a common man on the Bench,” was how the new CJI H.L. Dattu described his job as the head of the judiciary. He said the job of the SC judge is very responsible as every case at the top court is a “serious case” for citizens.
“At the end of the day it is the last court of the country. Whether it is a judge or the people we give lot of attention as we know how much citizens pay attention,” he said.
Justice Dattu, who started his profession from Karnataka had refused to comment on the controversy surrounding the attempt to scrap the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judiciary.
