India's Chief Justice Till Now...

NAME	TENURE
Harilal J.. Kania	January 26, 1950 - November 6, 1951
M. Patanjali Sastri	November 7, 1951 - January 3, 1954
Mehr Chand Mahajan	January 4, 1954 - December 22, 1954
BK Mukherjee	December 23, 1954 - January 31, 1956
SR Slave	01 February, 1956 - September 30, 1959
Bhubaneshwar Prasad Sinha	October 1, 1959 - January 31, 1964
PB Gajendragdkr	1 February 1964 - March 15, 1966
AK Government	March 16, 1966 - June 29, 1966
The. Subba Rao	June 30, 1966 - April 11, 1967
KN Wanchoo	April 12, 1967 - 24 February 1968
M. Hidayatullah	February 25, 1968 - December 16, 1970
ICT Shah	December 17, 1970 - January 21, 1971
SM Sikri	January 22, 1971 - April 25, 1973
AN Ray	April 26, 1973 - January 27, 1977
H. Bag	28 January 1977 - 21 February 1978
YV Chandrachur	22 February 1978 - July 11, 1985
PN Bhagwati	July 12, 1985 - December 20, 1986
RS Reader	December 21, 1986 - June 18, 1989
ES Venkataramiah	June 19, 1989 - December 17, 1989
S. Mukherjee	December 18, 1989 - September 25, 1990
Ranganath Mishra	September 26, 1990 - November 24, 1991
KN Singh	November 25, 1991 - December 12, 1991
H. Kania	December 13, 1991 - November 17, 1992
I. Sharma	November 18, 1992 - 11 February 1993
MN Venkatachaliah	12 February 1993 - October 24, 1994
AM Ahmadi	October 25, 1994 - March 24, 1997
J.. S. Verma	March 25, 1997 - January 17, 1998
MM Bird	January 18, 1998 - October 9, 1998
A. Pleasure	October 10, 1998 - October 31, 2001
S. P. Brucha	November 1, 2001 - May 5, 2002
BN Kripal	6 May 2002 - November 7, 2002
Yes. B. Patnaik	8 November 2002 - December 18, 2002
V. N. Khare	19 December 2002 - May 1, 2004
S. Rajendra Babu	02 May 2004 - May 31, 2004
R. C. Lahoti	June 1, 2004 - October 31, 2005
Y. The. Sabharwal	01 2005 November - January 14, 2007
The. Yes. Balakrishnan	14 January 2007 - May 12, 2010
S. H. Kapadia	May 12, 2010 - present