New Delhi: Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai has said that he will not accept any government post after retirement.

"I have decided that I will not accept any government position after my retirement...I will get more time after retirement, so I will try to spend more time in Darapur, Amravati and Nagpur," CJI Gavai said on Friday (July 25), reported Press Trust of India.

CJI Gavai, who would be retiring in November this year, made the comments while he was being felicitated at Darapur, his native village in Maharashtra's Amravati district.

The CJI was welcomed by a huge crowd of people upon entering the village. CJI Gavai later paid floral tributes at the memorial of his father the late R.S. Gavai, who was a former governor of Kerala and Bihar. The CJI also attended a programme to mark his father’s death anniversary along with some family members.

He also laid the foundation stone for a grand gate to be constructed on the way to Darapur, named after his father.

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