Mumbai, June 2: In a significant development for the Indian judiciary, five new judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court as of June 1, bringing the total number of judges to 37. The appointments were announced by the Department of Justice under the Ministry of Law and Justice through various notifications.
Among the newly appointed judges is senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana, who has been promoted directly from the bar to the Supreme Court. The other judges appointed include Justice Chandrashekar, Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Justice Shil Nagu, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, and Justice Arun Palli, Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.
These appointments were made following a recommendation by the Supreme Court Collegium, chaired by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Suryakant, which proposed the names on May 27. The government had recently amended the law to increase the total number of judges in the Supreme Court from 34 to 38. Despite the new appointments, one position in the Supreme Court remains vacant.
This expansion of the Supreme Court’s bench is expected to enhance its capacity to address the growing number of cases and improve the efficiency of the judicial process in India.