who served as chief justice of india for the longest period?

Answer 1

The first answer is wrong as it's for High Court of J&K. For Supreme Court of India, the longest serving Chief Justice was Mr. Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud from 22-Feb-1978 to 11-Jul-1985, a total duration of 2696 days. His bio can be read at http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/yvchandrachud.htm

Following is the list of ALL former Chief Justices of Supreme Court of India:


Former Chief Justices of Supreme Court From To Duration (Days)
Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania 14-Aug-1947 5-Nov-1951 1544
Mr. M. Patanjali Sastri 7-Nov-1951 3-Jan-1954 788
Mr. Mehr Chand Mahajan 4-Jan-1954 22-Dec-1954 352
Mr. Bijan Kumar Mukherjea 23-Dec-1954 31-Jan-1956 404
Mr. Sudhi Ranjan Das 1-Feb-1956 30-Sep-1959 1337
Mr. Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha 1-Oct-1959 31-Jan-1964 1583
Mr. Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar 1-Feb-1964 15-Mar-1966 773
Mr. Amal Kumar Sarkar 16-Mar-1966 29-Jun-1966 105
Mr. K. Subba Rao 30-Jun-1966 11-Apr-1967 285
Mr. Kailas Nath Wanchoo 12-Apr-1967 24-Feb-1968 318
Mr. Mohammad Hidayatullah 25-Feb-1968 16-Dec-1970 1025
Mr. Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah 17-Dec-1970 21-Jan-1971 35
Mr. Sarv Mittra Sikri 22-Jan-1971 25-Apr-1973 824
Mr. A.N. Ray 26-Apr-1973 28-Jan-1977 1373
Mr. Mirza Hameedullah Beg 29-Jan-1977 21-Feb-1978 388
Mr. Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud 22-Feb-1978 11-Jul-1985 2696
Mr. P.N. Bhagwati 12-Jul-1985 20-Dec-1986 526
Mr. Raghunandan Swarup Pathak 21-Dec-1986 18-Jun-1989 910
Mr. Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah 19-Jun-1989 17-Dec-1989 181
Mr. Sabyasachi Mukharji 18-Dec-1989 25-Sep-1990 281
Mr. Ranganath Misra 25-Sep-1990 24-Nov-1991 425
Mr. Kamal Narain Singh 25-Nov-1991 12-Dec-1991 17
Mr. Madhukar Hiralal Kania 13-Dec-1991 17-Nov-1992 340
Mr. Lalit Mohan Sharma 18-Nov-1992 11-Feb-1993 85
Mr. M.N. Venkatachaliah 12-Feb-1993 24-Oct-1994 619
Mr. Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi 25-Oct-1994 24-Mar-1997 881
Mr. Jagdish Sharan Verma 25-Mar-1997 18-Jan-1998 299
Mr. Madan Mohan Punchhi 18-Jan-1998 9-Oct-1998 264
Dr. Adarsh Sein Anand 10-Oct-1998 1-Nov-2001 1118
Mr. Sam Piroj Bharucha 1-Nov-2001 6-May-2002 186
Mr. Bhupinder Nath Kirpal 6-May-2002 8-Nov-2002 186
Mr. Gopal Ballav Pattanaik 8-Nov-2002 19-Dec-2002 41
Mr. Visheshwar Nath Khare 19-Dec-2002 2-May-2004 500
Mr. S. Rajendra Babu 2-May-2004 1-Jun-2004 30
Mr. Ramesh Chandra Lahoti 1-Jun-2004 1-Nov-2005 518
Mr. Y.K. Sabharwal 1-Nov-2005 14-Jan-2007 439

Answer 2

Longest Serving Chief Justice

Answer 3

Former Chief Justices & Judges

1. Hon’ble Shri Justice Kanwar Sain 27-04-1928 to 16-02-1931
2. Hon’ble Shri Justice Sir Birjor Dalal 16-02-1931 to 24-11-1936
3. Hon’ble Shri Justice Abdul Qayoom 24-11-1936 to 20-07-1940
4. Hon’ble Shri Justice Rachpal Singh 13-08-1940 to 06-03-1942
5. Hon’ble Shri Justice Ganga Nath 24-06-1942 to 23-10-1945
6. Hon’ble Shri Justice Sir S.K. Ghose 29-03-1946 to 29-03-1948
7. Hon’ble Shri Justice Janki Nath Wazir 30-03-1948 to 02-12-1967
8. Hon’ble Shri Justice Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali 03-12-1967 to 01-04-1975
9. Hon’ble Shri Justice Raja Jaswant Singh 02-04-1975 to 23-01-1976
10. Hon’ble Shri Justice M.R.A. Ansari 23-01-1976 to 08-11-1977
11. Hon’ble Shri Justice Mian Jalal-ud-Din 15-02-1978 to 22-02-1980
12. Hon’ble Shri Justice Mufti Baha-ud-Din 07-03-1983 to 23-08-1983
13. Hon’ble Shri Justice V.Angarial Khalid 24-08-1983 to 24-06-1984
14. Hon’ble Dr. Justice Adarsh Sein Anand 11-05-1985 to 23-10-1989
15. Hon’ble Shri Justice S.S. Kang 24-10-1989 to 14-05-1993
16. Hon’ble Shri Justice S.C. Mathur 10-10-1993 to 17-03-1994
17. Hon’ble Shri Justice S. Sagir Ahmed 18-03-1994 to 22-09-1994
18. Hon’ble Shri Justice M. Ramakrishna 10-10-1994 to 15-06-1997
19. Hon’ble Shri Justice Bhawani Singh 16-06-1997 to 21-02-2000
20. Hon'ble Dr. Justice B.P. Saraf 21-02.2000 to 22-08.2001
21. Hon'ble Shri Justice H. K. Sema 12-09-2001 to 08-04-2002
22. Hon'ble Shri Justice B. C. Patel 16-05-2002 to 04-03-2003
23. Hon'ble Shri Justice S. N. Jha 04-02-2004 to 11-10-2005


From this chart
Hon’ble Shri Justice Janki Nath Wazir 30-03-1948 to 02-12-1967

Answer 4

Justice Y.V.Chandrachood