Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana was sworn in because the 48th judge of India on Saturday. Justice Ramana’s will hold the post for sixteen months, until August 26, 2022.
Justice Ramana takes over at a time when the judiciary goes back to a virtual mode, thanks to the second wave of Covid-19, and is entrusted with ensuring un-interrupted access to justice. As Chairperson of the National Legal Services Authority, Justice Ramana led efforts to make sure training to lawyers and litigants to adapt to e-courts during the pandemic.
Born on August 27, 1957 in Ponnavaram of Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh , Justice Ramana is that the youngest of three siblings. His parents Nuthalapati Ganapathi Rao and Sarojini were humble agriculturists. Although he briefly worked as a journalist for Telugu newspaper Eenadu, as a primary generation lawyer, he enrolled as an advocate and found out practice in Vijayawada in 1983.
He subsequently moved to Hyderabad and later served as Additional Advocate General of Andhra Pradesh . In June 2000, he was appointed a permanent judge of the AP supreme court and in 2014, was elevated to the Supreme Court.
