Chief Justice of India N V Ramana took path-breaking judicial and administrative decisions that included putting the sedition law on hold, reviewing the money laundering verdict, ordering probes into Pegasus snooping and Lakhimpur Kheri cases and ensuring appointments of record 11 judges in the top court and over 220 in high courts.

On his last day in the office, the 48th CJI got one more feather in his cap by ensuring live streaming of SC proceedings of the ceremonial bench headed by him by implementing the 2018 verdict that had allowed such webcasts. Hailing from an agriculturist family in Ponnavaram village of Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district, Justice Ramana succeeded S A Bobde on April 24, 2021, with a dire situation of huge unfilled vacancies in the top court and the high courts staring at the face of the judiciary.