{"id":18958,"date":"2012-04-02T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=18958"},"modified":"2012-04-02T12:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T07:21:40","slug":"with-new-judge-supreme-court-has-26-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/with-new-judge-supreme-court-has-26-judges","title":{"rendered":"With new judge, Supreme Court has 26 judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/with-new-judge-supreme-court-has-26-judges\/ss-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18959\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/with-new-judge-supreme-court-has-26-judges\/ss-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/ss.png?fit=231%2C218&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"231,218\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ss\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/ss.png?fit=150%2C141&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/ss.png?fit=231%2C218&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18959\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ss.png?resize=231%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/ss.png?w=231&amp;ssl=1 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/04\/ss.png?resize=150%2C141&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Justice Mohamad Ibrahim Khalifullah was on Monday sworn-in as a judge of the Supreme Court, taking the strength of the apex court to 26 judges.<\/p>\n<p>He was administered the oath of office by Chief Justice SH Kapadia. 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The bench voiced its disapproval with: \"If we can't honour this court, who will do it?\" The court had taken\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Top Law News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Top Law News","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11939,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-judge-sudershan-reddy-retires","url_meta":{"origin":18958,"position":5},"title":"Supreme Court judge Sudershan Reddy retires","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"July 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Two days after delivering a judgment against use of tribals as special police officers (SPOs) in anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh, Supreme Court's Justice B. Sudershan Reddy retired Thursday. 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