Four new Judges take their oath in Supreme Court

Four new judges of the Supreme Court were on May 24 regulated the oath of office by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.

With the swearing in of the four judges, the number of judges in the Supreme Court remains at 31, the full authorized quality of the top court.

Justices B.R. Gavai, Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose, and A.S. Bopanna were controlled the oath of office by the CJI in court no.1 within the sight of a few other sitting apex court judges.

The apex court, which was working with 27 judges including the CJI has now achieved its full quality of judges out of the blue since 2008 when Parliament had expanded the number of judges from 26 to 31.

On Wednesday, President Ram Nath Kovind had issued warrants of the arrangement of Justices Gavai, Kant, Bose, and Bopanna as apex court judges.

The names of Justices Bose and Bopanna were prior returned by the Center to the Supreme Court collegium referring to position and portrayal of areas as the reasons.

In its May 8 goals, the five-part collegium had emphasized its proposal to raise Justices Bose and Bopanna, seeing that nothing antagonistic has been found with respect to their skill, director respectability.

The collegium, headed by the CJI, had on May 8 additionally prescribed the names of Justices Gavai and Kant for rising to the apex court.

Justice Gavai, who was a judge of the Bombay High Court, will turn into the CJI for barely a half year in 2025 and he will be the second Chief Justice of India having a place with the Scheduled Caste people group after Justice (retd) K.G. Balakrishnan.

Justice Kant, who was till now the chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, will succeed Justice Gavai as the CJI in November 2025 and he will stay in office till February 2027.

Justice Bose, who was till now the chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court, is at number 12 in the all-India position of High Court judges.

Justice Bopanna, whose parent High Court is Karnataka, was till now the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court and is at number 36 in the all-India rank.