Meet 5 new Supreme Court judges who will take oath on Feb 6 as Centre clears appointment

India

oi-Madhuri Adnal

At
present
the
top
court
is
functioning
with
27
judges,
including
the
Chief
Justice
of
India.

New
Delhi,
Feb
04:
President
Draupadi
Murmu
on
Saturday
appointed
five
new
Judges
to
the
Supreme
Court
after
the
Centre
cleared
the
proposal
by
the
Collegium
that
was
shared
in
December
last
year.

Five
judges
were
appointed
to
the
Supreme
Court
on
Saturday
with
the
Centre
clearing
the
names
recommended
by
the
Collegium
on
December
13
last
year.

Law
Minister
Kiren
Rijiju
tweeted
to
announce
the
appointment
of
Justice
Pankaj
Mithal,
Chief
Justice,
Rajasthan
High
Court;
Justice
Sanjay
Karol,
Chief
Justice,
Patna
High
Court;
Justice
P
V
Sanjay
Kumar,
Chief
Justice,
Manipur
High
Court;
Justice
Ahsanuddin
Amanullah
of
Patna
High
Court;
and
Justice
Manoj
Misra
of
Allahabad
High
Court
as
apex
court
judges.

Supreme
Court
likely
to
get
five
new
judges,
working
strength
will
go
up
to
32

Once
they
take
oath
early
next
week,
the
strength
of
the
apex
court
will
go
up
to
32
judges.

At
present
the
top
court
is
functioning
with
27
judges,
including
the
Chief
Justice
of
India.
Its
sanctioned
strength,
including
the
CJI,
is
34.
Their
appointments
come
amidst
strong
observations
by
a
Supreme
Court
bench
questioning
the
delay
on
part
of
the
government
in
appointing
and
transferring
judges
based
on
the
recommendations
of
the
SC
Collegium.

A
senior
government
functionary
said
the
five
appointments
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
bench’s
observation
and
were
made
after
the
Cente
took
a
considered
decision.
The
appointments
came
in
due
course,
he
added.

Here
are
the
five
judges
elevated
to
the
Supreme
Court:

Pankaj
Mithal

Born
on
17
June
1961,
Justice
Pankaj
Mithal
is
an
Indian
Judge.
Presently,
he
is
a
Chief
Justice
of
the
Rajasthan
High
Court.
Prior
to
that,
he
served
as
as
the
Chief
Justice
of
the
Jammu
&
Kashmir
and
Ladakh
High
Court.
He
is
a
former
Judge
of
the
Allahabad
High
Court.

Sanjay
Karol

Sanjay
Karol
is
an
Indian
Judge.
Presently,
he
is
Chief
Justice
of
Patna
High
Court.
He
is
former
Chief
Justice
of
Tripura
High
Court.
He
is
also
former
Judge
and
Acting
Chief
Justice
of
Himachal
Pradesh
High
Court.

PV
Sanjay
Kumar

P.V.
Kumar
was
born
on
14
August
1963,
in
Hyderabad
to
late
P.
Ramachandra
Reddy
and
P.
Padmavathamma.
P.Ramachandra
Reddy
was
the
former
Advocate
General
of
Andhra
Pradesh
High
Court
(1969
to
1982).

Ahsanuddin
Amanullah

Justice
Ahsanuddin
Amanullah
is
presently
a
Judge
of
the
Patna
High
Court.
He
has
also
served
at
the
Andhra
Pradesh
High
Court.
Born
to
an
eminent
family
hailing
from
Bihar,
Amanullah
his
law
degree
from
Patna
Law
College.
Justice
Amanullah
was
briefly
transferred
to
Andhra
Pradesh
high
court
in
October
2021,
before
being
re-transferred
to
the
Patna
high
court
in
June
last
year.

Manoj
Misra

Justice
Manoj
Misra
obtained
his
law
degree
from
the
University
of
Allahabad
in
1988
and
has,
since,
practiced
in
civil,
revenue,
criminal
and
Constitutional
matters.
He
was
elevated
as
an
additional
judge
of
Allahabad
high
court
on
November
21,
2011,
by
then
President
Pratibha
Patil
and
was
made
permanent
on
6
August
2013.
He
has
served
as
a
judge
of
the
Allahabad
high
court
since
then.