{"id":42965,"date":"2016-05-13T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=42965"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T04:29:26","slug":"four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","title":{"rendered":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42899\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42899\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/dont-issue-ownership-certificates-elephant-owners-sc\/sc-32\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-42899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court&#8217;s strength to 29, including Chief Justice T S Thakur.<\/p>\n<p>They were administered the oath of office by CJI Thakur this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Khanwilkar, Chandrachud and Bhushan were the Chief Justices of Madhya Pradesh High Court, Allahabad High Court and Kerala High Court, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Rao, who was a senior advocate and former Additional Solicitor General, has been elevated as an apex court judge from the bar.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctioned strength of judges in the apex court is 31, including the CJI. There is only one woman judge in the Supreme Court Justice R Banumathi.<\/p>\n<p>The elevation of the four judges were the first set of recommendations made by the Supreme Court Collegium after the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act which sought to scrap the collegium system was struck down by an SC bench in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court will also see five judges retiring this year, including Justice A R Dave who will retire on November 18, Justice F M I Kalifulla on July 22, Justice V Gopala Gowda on October 5, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh on November 12 and Justice C Nagappan on October 3. The Chief Justice of India will retire on January 3, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Former ASG L Nageshwar Rao is the fourth member from the Bar recommended for Supreme Court judgeship by the collegium after the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, U U Lalit and R F Nariman were appointed as SC judges, but the government had returned the file of former Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium citing negative Intelligence Bureau report.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Khanwilkar was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on November 24, 2013. Prior to this, he was appointed the Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court on April 4, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He became the Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on March 29, 2000 and permanent judge on April 8, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court&#8217;s strength to 29, including Chief Justice T S Thakur. They were administered the oath of office by CJI Thakur this morning. Justices Khanwilkar, Chandrachud and Bhushan were the Chief Justices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38299,"featured_media":42899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,31987,774,117,80,47726],"class_list":["post-42965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-court","tag-featured","tag-judges","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court&#039;s strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court&#039;s strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"302\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal India News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal India News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal India News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2b856940493e891fdeab60e1199c3d26\"},\"headline\":\"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\"},\"wordCount\":351,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2016\\\/05\\\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1\",\"keywords\":[\"Court\",\"featured\",\"judges\",\"Law\",\"Legal News\",\"Supreme Court\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Top Law News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\",\"name\":\"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2016\\\/05\\\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00\",\"description\":\"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2016\\\/05\\\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2016\\\/05\\\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1\",\"width\":302,\"height\":201},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Top Law News\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/category\\\/top-law-news\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Legal News India - Supreme Court & High Court Updates\",\"description\":\"Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates\",\"alternateName\":\"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2018\\\/05\\\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1\",\"width\":250,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/LegalindiaCom\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Legal_india\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2b856940493e891fdeab60e1199c3d26\",\"name\":\"Legal India News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Legal India News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legalindia.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/news\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","description":"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","og_description":"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","og_site_name":"Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/","article_published_time":"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00","og_image":[{"width":302,"height":201,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Legal India News","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Legal India News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges"},"author":{"name":"Legal India News","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2b856940493e891fdeab60e1199c3d26"},"headline":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges","datePublished":"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges"},"wordCount":351,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1","keywords":["Court","featured","judges","Law","Legal News","Supreme Court"],"articleSection":["Top Law News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges","name":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1","datePublished":"2016-05-13T04:29:26+00:00","description":"Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were today sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1","width":302,"height":201},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-judges-sworn-supreme-court-judges#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Top Law News","item":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/top-law-news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Four judges sworn in as Supreme Court judges"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/","name":"Legal News India - Supreme Court & High Court Updates","description":"Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. Essential updates on judgements, acts, and in-depth analysis for lawyers, advocates, and law students in India.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization"},"alternateName":"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates","alternateName":"Legal News India for Advocates, Lawyers & Law Students","url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/538552_367793346590451_81997783_n.jpg?fit=250%2C250&ssl=1","width":250,"height":250,"caption":"Legal News India: Supreme Court, High Courts & Govt Updates"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegalindiaCom\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Legal_india"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/2b856940493e891fdeab60e1199c3d26","name":"Legal India News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c408fba78be47a892c53d34c8fba7cbe12a0e770170ebcd127d6bfbd0d521664?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Legal India News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/"],"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/author\/news"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/sc.jpg?fit=302%2C201&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55199,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/justices-dinesh-maheshwari-sanjiv-khanna-sworn-in-as-sc-judges","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":0},"title":"Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Sanjiv Khanna sworn-in as SC judges","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna were sworn-in as Supreme Court judges on Friday. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi administered the oath of office to justices Maheshwari and Khanna during the swearing-in ceremony held in court number 1 of the apex court. The sanctioned strength of judges in\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/Justices-Dinesh-Maheshwari-and-Sanjiv-Khanna.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":54156,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-plea-challenging-appointment-of-justice-gogoi-as-next-cji","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":1},"title":"Supreme Court rejects plea challenging appointment of Justice Gogoi as next CJI","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"September 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"NEW DELHI:\u00a0The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition\u00a0filed by advocate RP Luthra seeking to quash the appointment\u00a0\u00a0of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the next Chief Justice of India.\u00a0The petitioner advocates, R P Luthra and Satyaveer Sharma had relied on the contents of a press conference called by the top four\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/ranjan-gogoi-1535849452.jpg?fit=715%2C476&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/ranjan-gogoi-1535849452.jpg?fit=715%2C476&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/ranjan-gogoi-1535849452.jpg?fit=715%2C476&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/ranjan-gogoi-1535849452.jpg?fit=715%2C476&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":57640,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/four-supreme-court-judges-take-oath-of-office-taking-total-strength-to-34","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":2},"title":"Four Supreme Court judges take oath of office taking total strength to 34","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"September 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Four new Supreme Court judges took oath of office on Monday, taking the total strength of judges in the apex court to 34. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi administered the oath of office and secrecy to justices Krishna Murari, S Ravindra Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy in\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/download-27-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46400,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cji-questions-centre-transfer-hc-judges","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":3},"title":"CJI questions Centre over transfer of HC judges","author":"Legal India News","date":"January 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court today questioned the Centre as to why judges and chief justices of high courts are not being transfered despite the recommendations of the collegium and asked it to file a status report on such pending transfers with detailed reasons in two weeks. The apex court said it\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":"CJI questions Centre over transfer of HC judges","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/11\/retired-judges.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":60148,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/physical-hearing-may-begin-in-some-courts-in-supreme-court-from-next-week","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":4},"title":"Physical hearing may begin in some courts in Supreme Court from next week","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"August 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A committee of seven Supreme Court judges is learnt to have recommended holding physical hearings in at least two or three of the 15 benches in the apex court as early as next week with some additional safety measures. The apex court, since March 25, has been holding hearings through\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":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/sc.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":58462,"url":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/cji-headed-9-judge-sc-bench-to-hear-issue-of-womens-entry-in-sabarimala-temple","url_meta":{"origin":42965,"position":5},"title":"CJI headed 9-judge SC bench to hear issue of women&#8217;s entry in Sabarimala temple","author":"Legal India Admin","date":"January 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Supreme Court on Tuesday formed a nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde to hear from January 13 the issue of allowing women and girls of all ages to enter Kerala's Sabarimala temple, along with the other contentious issues of alleged discrimination against Muslim and Parsi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;High Profile Cases&quot;","block_context":{"text":"High Profile Cases","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/category\/high-profile-cases"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/sabrimala.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6H5Bf-baZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}