{"id":15313,"date":"2026-06-01T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/supreme-court-five-new-judges-appointed-to-the-supreme-court-as-strength-increases-to-37-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:47:53","slug":"supreme-court-five-new-judges-appointed-to-the-supreme-court-as-strength-increases-to-37-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/supreme-court-five-new-judges-appointed-to-the-supreme-court-as-strength-increases-to-37-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court: Five New Judges Appointed to the Supreme Court as Strength Increases to 37 | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131433891,imgsize-108386,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/131433891.jpg\" alt=\"Centre appoints five new Supreme Court judges, strength to rise to 37\" title=\"Image credit: ANI\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Supreme Court<\/a> is set to get five new judges after the Central Government cleared the names recommended by the SC Collegium, taking the apex court close to its newly expanded sanctioned strength of 38.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced on X that the President has approved the appointment of four high court Chief Justices and Senior Advocate V. Mohana as judges of the Supreme Court under Article 124(2) of the Constitution.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">The appointees are:<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, Chief Justice of the Bombay high court<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Justice Arun Palli, Chief Justice of the high court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>The appointments come days after the SC Collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, recommended their elevation on May 27. <!-- -->This is the Collegium&#8217;s first major set of appointments under CJI Surya Kant, who assumed office in November 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>The development follows the Centre&#8217;s decision to increase the sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court from 34 to 38 judges through the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance, 2026. With these five appointments, the Supreme Court&#8217;s strength will rise to 37 judges, leaving only one vacancy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>The expansion is aimed at addressing the growing pendency of cases in the apex court and enabling the constitution of more regular Constitution Benches. The latest appointments are expected to strengthen the court&#8217;s capacity while reflecting considerations of seniority, merit, regional representation and gender diversity.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/><span class=\"em\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Based on inputs from ANI<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/centre-appoints-five-new-supreme-court-judges-strength-to-rise-to-37\/articleshow\/131433809.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court is set to get five new judges after the Central Government cleared the names recommended by the SC Collegium, taking the apex court close to its newly expanded sanctioned strength of 38.Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced on X that the President has approved the appointment of four high court Chief Justices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}