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There are currently 34 judges (including the Chief Justice) who comprise the
List of Judges of the Supreme Court of India
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There are currently 34 judges (including the Chief Justice) who comprise the Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme judicial authority of India and is the highest court of the Republic of India under the constitution. It is the most senior constitutional court, has the final decision in all legal matters ...
, the highest court
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in the country. The maximum possible strength is 34. According to the Constitution of India
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, the judges of the Supreme Court retire at the age of 65.
In August 2021, then President
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Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community ...
signed the warrant of appointments of nine judges, including three women, to the Supreme Court, taking the total number of judges to 33, against the sanctioned strength of 34. It was also the first instance that nine judges to the Supreme Court took oath at once. 7 of the 33 judges (excluding chief justice) are expected to eventually become Chief Justices of India.
Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian judge who is appointed as the List of chief justices of India, 50th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former ju ...
is the 50th and current Chief Justice of India
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. He was sworn in on 9 November 2022.
List of judges ordered by seniority
Members of Collegium
Currently, the Collegium consists of six members. They are: *Chief JusticeDhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian judge who is appointed as the List of chief justices of India, 50th and current Chief Justice of India. He is a former chief justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former ju ...
*Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Sanjay Kishan Kaul is currently the Most senior judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of Madras High Court and Punjab and Haryana High Court and former judge of Delhi High Court. He has also served as acting chief justi ...
*Justice K. M. Joseph
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 17 June 1958) is a judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of Uttarakhand High Court. Before his appointment as chief justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand on 31 July 2014, he had served as ...
*Justice Mukesh Shah
Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah (born 16 May 1958) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, former chief justice of the Patna High Court and a former judge of Gujarat High Court.
Career
Shah was enrolled as an Advocate on 19 July 1982 and ...
*Justice Ajay Rastogi
Ajay Rastogi (born 18 June 1958) is a judge of Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of Tripura High Court. He is also former judge of Rajasthan High Court.
Career
Shri Justice Ajay Rastogi, B.Com., LL.B., was born in 1958. He wa ...
*Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Sanjiv Khanna (born 14 May 1960) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former judge of Delhi High Court.
Early life
He completed his schooling from Delhi's Modern School, Barakhamba Road in the year 1977. After graduating in the ye ...
See also
*List of chief justices of India
There are a total of 50 Chief Justices of India who have served since the establishment of the Supreme Court of India in 1950, which superseded the Federal Court of India. The current and 50th Chief Justice is Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud ...
* List of current Indian chief justices
* List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India
This is a list of female judges of the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme court, highest court in the Republic of India. The list is ordered according to chronology.
The first female justice in the court was Fathima Beevi appointed on 6 Octo ...
* List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India
The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 26 January 1950. A total of 232 judges have served in the court (excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirem ...
* List of sitting judges of High Courts of India
References
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