The Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur, underwent a check-up at a private hospital in South Delhi on Thursday. Hospital sources, however, said: “He was fine and it was just a routine check-up.”
The Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur, underwent a check-up at a private hospital in South Delhi on Thursday. Hospital sources, however, said: “He was fine and it was just a routine check-up.”
Justice Thakur (64) did not attend court on Thursday. “The CJI visited the hospital earlier in the day. He has been coming to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for medical check-ups for the past couple of years, and today’s visit was also a regular visit. He is doing fine and has returned home. There is nothing to worry about,” said the hospital source.
Justice Thakur is the 43rd Chief Justice of India and is due to retire on January 4 next year. Born in 1952, he was enrolled as a pleader in October 1972 and joined the chamber of his father, Late D.D. Thakur, a leading advocate and later a judge of Jammu and Kashmir high court.
Justice Thakur was appointed as a permanent judge in September 1995 and transferred as a judge of the Delhi high court in July 2004. He was appointed the acting chief justice of Delhi high court in 2008 and took over as chief justice of the high court of Punjab and Haryana on August 11, 2008. Elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court in 2009, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on December 3 last year.
