Topic: Collegium

The addition of these four judges will take the strength of the Supreme Court to 28 judges, against a sanctioned total of 31.

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Justice K.M. Joseph, who became famous for standing up to the Modi government with his 2016 Uttarakhand judgment, enters the Supreme Court today.

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The two lawyers are Mohammad Mansoor & Basharat Ali Khan. Both have appeared for Adityanath government.

Punjab & Haryana HC judge Ajay Kumar Mittal wrote to the Union law minister on 30 May saying some of the names don’t merit appointment as high court judges.

The collegium gives the impression that it has been certain of the need to appoint an eminent member of the Bar and that Joseph was the only other fit person.

It decided that his name “should also be accompanied by the recommendation of the names of chief justices of high courts for elevation” to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is shocked that so many child sexual assault cases are pending in India.

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