Five new SC judges to take oath today
06 Feb 2023 09:11:04
NEW DELHI,
THE Supreme Court is all set to get five new judges, taking its strength to 32 against the sanctioned strength of 34, on Monday when three chief justices-- Justice Pankaj Mithal, Justice Sanjay Karol and P V Sanjay Kumar -- of High Courts of Rajasthan, Patna and Manipur respectively will take oath alongside two other senior High Court judges.
Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of the Patna High Court and Justice Manoj Misra of the Allahabad High Court will also be administered oath of office by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) as apex court judges in a ceremony to be held at the court’s auditorium in its new building complex. The senior most among the five judges, whose names were officially announced by the Centre on Saturday, is Justice Mithal whose parent cadre is the Allahabad High Court.
He was serving as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court since October 14, last year. The second senior-most judge who will take oath on Monday, is Justice Karol, whose parent HC cadre is Himachal Pradesh. He was the chief justice of the Patna High Court at the time of elevation.
Justice P V Sanjay Kumar, who originally belonged to the Telangana High Court, is third in the list of five judges and was heading the Manipur High Court at the time of recommendation by the Collegium on December 13 last year and subsequent clearance by the Centre.
Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of the Patna High Court is the fourth judge who has been appointed to the SC.
Justice Manoj Misra, the fifth in the list, was born on June 2, 1965. He enrolled as an advocate on December 12, 1988, and was elevated as additional judge at the Allahabad High Court on November 21, 2011. He took oath as a permanent judge on August 6, 2013. All the five names for the judgeship in the top court were recommended by the six-member Supreme Court Collegium on December 13 last year.
On January 31, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended two more names for elevation as top court judges -- Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Aravind Kumar.
Out of the 27 apex court judges at present, eight are scheduled to demit office in 2023.