9 judges, including 3 women appointed to Supreme Court

Nine new judges, including three women, were on Thursday appointed to the Supreme Court, making Justice B V Nagarathna in line to be the first woman Chief Justice of India (CJI) in September 2027. President Ram Nath Kovind signed their warrants of appointment. With a sanctioned strength of 34 judges, the Supreme Court as of now has ten vacancies. Once the new judges take oath in the coming days, the top court will have only one vacancy. Formal notifications by the law ministry announcing their appointments would be issued shortly, people aware of the developments said.

In a first, the Supreme Court Collegium had last week recommended for appointment to the apex court three women judges. Besides Justice Nagarathna, the third senior-most judge of the Karnataka high court, the other women judges who have been

September 1 on attaining the age of 62. While high court judges retire at the age of 62, the retirement age of Supreme Court judges is 65.

Besides them, Justice C T Ravikumar of the Kerala high court, and Justice M M Sundresh of the Madras high court have also been appointed to the top court. Senior advocate and former Additional Solicitor General P S Narasimha has became the sixth lawyer to be elevated to the apex court bench directly from the Bar. The chief justices of different high courts who have made it to the Supreme Court are Justices Abhay Shreeniwas Oka (Chief Justice of the Karnataka HC), Vikram Nath (Chief Justice of the Gujarat HC), Jitendra

Karnataka on February 18, 2 and became a permanent Ju on February 17, 2010.

She will have a tenure a SC judge till October 29, 2 and may have a tenure of one month as the first wo CJI after September 23, 202

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