Delhi High Court Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Augustine George Masih and Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta were appointed as top court judges.
The names of Justice Bhuyan, the chief justice of the Telangana High Court, and Justice Bhatti, his counterpart in Kerala, were recommended for elevation to the top court by the Supreme Court Collegium on July 5.
Supreme Court news: Before their elevation, Justice Bindal was the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court while Justice Kumar was the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court.
All the 33 judges including the CJI have donated Rs 50,000 each to the fund. He said cheques have already been sent to the fund. Earlier, Justice N V Ramana, senior-most judge after CJI S A Bobde, had donated Rs 1 lakh each to PM’s fund and funds of chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh And Telangana.
Justice DY Chandrachud has further requested the Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde to issue necessary directions in this regard to take care of the emergency situations which has arisen.
The Supreme Court on Monday attained its full strength after the swearing of four new judges taking the total number of judges to 34, which is the highest ever.
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking to increase the strength of judges and raise the retirement age of high court judges to 65 years.
Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna were sworn in as Supreme Court judges amid a raging controversy over the functioning of the Collegium which recommended their elevation by ignoring some senior judges of various high courts.
Justice Chelameswar, who retires on June 22, sat in a bench headed by the CJI along with Justice D Y Chandrachud as today was the last working day before the apex court goes for the long summer vacation.
The development comes a day after him and the Bar Council of India (BCI) said that the mater has been “settled” and resolved “internally”.
None of the four judges — Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur and Kurian Joseph, feature in the list of members of the 5-judge constitution bench.
Four senior judges of the Supreme Court on Friday mounted a virtual revolt against the chief justice, listing a litany of problems that they said are afflicting the country's highest court and warned they could destroy Indian democracy.
New Delhi: Fifteen years after it was adopted, the Supreme Court published the in-house procedure to deal with complaints against judges of the Apex Court and High Courts, on its website Monday.The mechanism was published
New Delhi: Justices Arun Mishra, Adarsh Kumar Goel and Rohington F Nariman on Monday assumed charge as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength to 27, including Chief Justice R M Lodha.Justices Mishra, 59,
New Delhi, Sept 13: Three judges, including a woman, were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, raising the strength of women in the annals of the highest judiciary to two for the first time.Justices
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