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Option 1 : Andhra Pradesh
The correct answer is Andhra Pradesh.
- The current Chief Justice of India is Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana. He was born in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district.
- He formerly served on the Supreme Court of India as a judge, the Delhi High Court as chief justice, and the Andhra Pradesh High Court as interim chief justice.
- He served as president of the Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy.
- On June 27, 2000, Ramana was appointed to the Andhra Pradesh High Court as a permanent judge.
- He was appointed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on September 2, 2013, and a judge of the Supreme Court of India on February 17, 2014.
- President Ram Nath Kovind appointed Ramana as the 48th Chief Justice on April 6, 2021, and he took his oath of office at Rashtrapati Bhavan on April 24, 2021.
- The chief justice of the Supreme Court of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian federal judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India.
- The president of India is empowered by the Indian Constitution to nominate the next chief justice, in consultation with the departing chief justice, who will serve until they reach the age of 65 or are impeached.
- The name suggested by the current chief justice is nearly invariably the next most senior Supreme Court judge, as is customary.
- The first Chief Justice of India was Sir Hiralal Jekisundas Kania.
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