Chief Justice of India, Bhushan Gawai which is not true about him ?

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Correct — option (3) is the statement that is NOT true. Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai — the 52nd Chief Justice of India, sworn in on 14 May 2025 — was appointed Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor for the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on 17 January 2000, not January 2005. His biography correctly places him in Nagpur Bench roles from 1992 (as Assistant Government Pleader and Additional Public Prosecutor), then as full Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor from January 2000, before he was elevated as an Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court in November 2003 and confirmed as a permanent Judge in November 2005. The '2005' offered in this option collides with the year he actually became a permanent High Court Judge, which is exactly the kind of adjacent-date substitution this question is built to catch.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This is accurate. Justice Gavai was born on 24 November 1960 in Amravati, Maharashtra, and this date is consistently recorded across his official biography.  (b) This is accurate. Justice Gavai's own recorded career history describes him as having practiced in Constitutional and Administrative Law, alongside his later work across civil, criminal, commercial, arbitration, electricity and environmental matters as a High Court and Supreme Court judge.  (d) This is accurate. Justice Gavai was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 24 May 2019, several years before he went on to become Chief Justice of India in May 2025.

Concept: Justice B. R. Gavai's career milestones — birth, entry to the Bar, appointments as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor, elevation as Additional and then permanent High Court Judge, elevation to the Supreme Court, and eventually becoming Chief Justice of India — form a specific chronological sequence, and this question tests whether a candidate can spot the one date in that sequence that has been altered.

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