Justice Misra will remain in office till October 2, 2018.
Justice Misra, 63, has been a part of several key verdicts.
It is easy to criticise but difficult to transform an institution, says CJI Misra
Her sister, who was 13 at the time, later told Sonia about the violence and killings of people from the Sikh community following former prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, she said in Delhi on Saturday at a press conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the riots.
A bench headed by the then Chief Justice, Dipak Misra, had on May 17, 2018 allowed the woman to go back to her parents, who claimed the 'nikahnama' furnished by Danish was fake and that he had abducted their daughter.
The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked the Centre to file the response within a week on the plea.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has agreed to consider allowing three nominees from the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) to participate in its crucial meeting in Dubai on 2 February.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra made it clear that Bihar, which had not been allowed to participate in national-level cricket tournaments, must play cricket.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the Jammu-Kashmir Police to file a supplementary chargesheet in the case within eight weeks.
'Even the ruling party -- if it really respects the independence of the judiciary and democracy -- should support this impeachment motion.'
A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submission of Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi that CBI has not found any incriminating material against the RJD leader.
SC stepped into the row over the transfer Setalvad's anticipatory bail plea to a new bench.
Two petitions that sought an independent probe into Judge Loya's death had earlier been assigned to two judges including Justice Arun Mishra, the 10th most-senior judge of the Supreme Court.
The Delhi high court on Friday gave the green signal to the Election Commission to probe Ashok Chavan and Madhu Koda, former chief ministers of Maharashtra and Jharkhand respectively, in connection with alleged discrepancies in their poll expenditure accounts. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna gave the order while dismissing the pleas of Chavan and Koda challenging the poll panel's power to proceed against them.
The apex court's order came hours after the high court extended Chidambaram's protection from arrest in the ED case from March 20 to March 22.
According to a PIL filed by an NGO, the show is 'spreading vulgarity and demoting social and moral values'.
The Delhi high court on Monday held that doctors of government hospitals are not allowed to go on strike and directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences authorities to find out and punish those medical practitioners who had resorted to such a method of protest in recent years.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority to frame a comprehensive policy to deal with the cases of applicants, who were injured in last Wednesday's blast when they had come to court to attend hearing of a public interest litigation in the Rohini housing scheme case.
Chief Justice of India S H Kapadia on Wednesday visited the blast site and held a meeting with Delhi high court chief justice Dipak Misra.
Nina Pillai, in her petition, had alleged that the mandatory medical examination of her husband was not conducted at Tihar for even two days after his arrest.
The court said that Dhobi Ghat is a geographical description of a place and is not offensive.
In the wake of heightened threat perception, the Supreme Court has curtailed the entry of visitors including law interns in the high security complex and requested advocates to be extra-cautious of any suspicious activity within its premises.
Justices Dipak Misra and Jasti Chelameswar were on Monday sworn in as Supreme Court judges, raising the strength of the Apex court to 28.
A week after a bomb blast killed 13 people outside the court, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Centre as well as the state government to come out with a scheme with regard to grant of compensation to the family of the victims.
The apex court asked the hospital authorities to conduct the termination of pregnancy preferably on September 8. "The girl would be admitted a day before," it said.
"That the Government of India intends to explore an alternative to the earlier alignment of Sethusamudram Ship Channel project without affecting/damaging the Adam's Bridge/Ram Sethu in the interest of the nation," the affidavit filed by the shipping ministry said.
The petitioners seeking reconsideration by a larger bench, the observations made by it in a 1994 verdict that a mosque was not integral to Islam.
The verdict was reserved on August 13 last year after bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C Pant heard the matter spread over a month.
The apex court also took note of a plea of the victim's father seeking transfer of the trial of the case from Kathua, preferably to Chandigarh and sought response of the state government.
On the last date of hearing, the Maharashtra police had produced additional letters to establish Moist links of the arrested accused even as the petitioners described it as cooked-up evidence.
Separately, the Delhi high court on Monday asked the CBSE about its plans, if any, to re-conduct the class 10 maths test.
The bench also said that endeavour should be made that a person, who had been selected and appointed as DGP, has reasonable period of service left.
The Mumbai Cricket Association has moved the Supreme Court against the Bombay high court order directing shifting of IPL matches outside Maharashtra.
"My presence in Parliament will be an opportunity to project the views of the judiciary before the legislature and vice versa," he said.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra made it clear that it would not allow any plea now seeking to intervene in the ongoing proceedings, saying that they would be 'cruelly' rejected.
It is also unclear whether foreigners were among the six delegates booked by police.
The SC asked parties before the Allahabad HC to file in 2 weeks English translation of documents exhibited by them.
A unanimous decision was taken by the 30 judges of the apex court in the full court meeting headed by Chief Justice of India U U Lalit held on Tuesday evening to implement an apex court verdict of 2018 in the Swapnil Tripathi case.
Justice Gogoi lamented that the very issues which give a different identity to a community make its people hate those who are different.
None of the four judges -- Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph -- feature in the list of members of the 5-judge constitution bench.
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