New Delhi: Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were sworn in today as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength to 29, including Chief Justice T S Thakur.
They were administered the oath of office by CJI Thakur this morning.
Justice Khanwilkar, Justice Chandrachud and Justice Bhushan were the Chief Justices of Madhya Pradesh High Court, Allahabad High Court and Kerala High Court, respectively.
The sanctioned strength of judges in the apex court is 31, including the CJI. There is only one woman judge in the Supreme Court Justice R Banumathi.
The apex court will also see five judges retiring this year, including Justice A R Dave who will retire on November 18, Justice F M I Kalifulla on July 22, Justice V Gopala Gowda on October 5, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh on November 12 and Justice C Nagappan on October 3. The Chief Justice of India will retire on January 3, 2017.
In 2014, U U Lalit and R F Nariman were appointed as SC judges, but the government had returned the file of former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium citing negative Intelligence Bureau report.
He became the Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000 and permanent judge on April 8, 2002.
He was designated as senior advocate in 1998 and was the Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000. Justice Bhushan, a law graduate from Allahabad University in 1979, was enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh in 1979.
Before becoming the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court on March 26, 2015, he became a judge at the Kerala High Court on July 10, 2014.
Justice Rao, a senior advocate from Andhra Pradesh, had served three terms as an Additional Solicitor General and he resigned from his last stint in December 2014.
Justice Rao was enrolled in June 1982 and practised in the Andhra Pradesh High Court till January 1995, when he shifted to the apex court.
He was standing counsel for various universities in Andhra Pradesh and had appeared in constitutional and administrative law matters in the apex court and the High Courts of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Haryana, Guwahati, Karnataka and Patna.
They were administered the oath of office by CJI Thakur this morning.
Justice Khanwilkar, Justice Chandrachud and Justice Bhushan were the Chief Justices of Madhya Pradesh High Court, Allahabad High Court and Kerala High Court, respectively.
The sanctioned strength of judges in the apex court is 31, including the CJI. There is only one woman judge in the Supreme Court Justice R Banumathi.
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The apex court will also see five judges retiring this year, including Justice A R Dave who will retire on November 18, Justice F M I Kalifulla on July 22, Justice V Gopala Gowda on October 5, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh on November 12 and Justice C Nagappan on October 3. The Chief Justice of India will retire on January 3, 2017.
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In 2014, U U Lalit and R F Nariman were appointed as SC judges, but the government had returned the file of former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium citing negative Intelligence Bureau report.
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He became the Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000 and permanent judge on April 8, 2002.
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He was designated as senior advocate in 1998 and was the Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000. Justice Bhushan, a law graduate from Allahabad University in 1979, was enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh in 1979.
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Before becoming the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court on March 26, 2015, he became a judge at the Kerala High Court on July 10, 2014.
Justice Rao, a senior advocate from Andhra Pradesh, had served three terms as an Additional Solicitor General and he resigned from his last stint in December 2014.
Justice Rao was enrolled in June 1982 and practised in the Andhra Pradesh High Court till January 1995, when he shifted to the apex court.
He was standing counsel for various universities in Andhra Pradesh and had appeared in constitutional and administrative law matters in the apex court and the High Courts of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Haryana, Guwahati, Karnataka and Patna.
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