5 New Judges to be Sworn in today Amid Collegium Row, 2 more vacancies left in SC

The Chief Justice of India will administer oath to 5 newly elevated judges of the Supreme Court of India.

On Saturday, the Central Government had announced the appointment of 5 judges in the Supreme Court, after accepting the recommendations of the Collegium.

The Supreme Court of India currently has a sanctioned strength of thirty-four judges and is operating with twenty-seven.
With the addition of these five judges, the Supreme Court’s working strength has increased to 32.
The recommendations made by the Supreme Court collegium in December 2022 to elevate five High Court judges to the Supreme Court were approved a day after Attorney General for India R. Venkataramani notified the Supreme Court that the Central Government would do so very soon.
The 5 judges whose appointments have been notified are; Justice Pankaj Mithal (Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court), Justice Sanjay Karol (Chief Justice of Patna High Court), Justice P. V. Sanjay Kumar (Chief Justice of Manipur High Court), Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah (Judge, Patna High Court) and Justice Manoj Misra (Judge, Allahabad High Court).
There are now only two vacancies at the apex court, which could be filled in the coming days if the president accepts the Supreme Court Collegium’s January 31 proposal to elevate Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal and Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Aravind Kumar as SC judges.