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Four New Judges Appointed to the Supreme Court: Strength Reaches 34
Four new judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court on 18th September 2019, increasing its strength to 34, the highest-ever.Justices Krishna Murari, SR Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy were appointed as judges of the Apex Court. Their names had been recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium to the Government last month.Justices V Ramasubramanian and Krishna Murari head...
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Four new judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court on 18th September 2019, increasing its strength to 34, the highest-ever.
Justices Krishna Murari, SR Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy were appointed as judges of the Apex Court. Their names had been recommended by the Supreme Court Collegium to the Government last month.
Justices V Ramasubramanian and Krishna Murari head the Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and Haryana High Courts respectively. Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Hrishikesh Roy head the Rajasthan and Kerala High Courts respectively.
With a huge backlog of cases in the Supreme Court, the Government had recently increased the strength of its judges from 31 to 34, including the Chief Justice of India. As of today, the Apex Court has 30 judges. After the new judges take oath, the strength will go up to 34. The sanctioned strength of Supreme Court judges was increased days after Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the number of judges in the Top Court.
The Chief Justice said that due to paucity of judges, the required number of Constitution Benches to decide important cases involving questions of law were not being formed.