New Delhi: Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and senior advocate KV Viswanathan will likely be sworn in as Supreme Court judges today (May 19). The oath will likely be administered by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chadrachud. They had been appointed as Supreme Court judges by the Central authorities yesterday.
The warrant of appointment of Justice Mishra and Viswanathan as judges of the apex courtroom was issued from the workplace of President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday.
New Union Law Minister announce appointment of Judges
Union Law Minister Arjun Meghwal took to Twitter to announce the appointment of Mishra and Viswanathan. Their names had been advisable to the Centre by the Supreme Court Collegium, headed by CJI Chandrachud.
The CJI will administer the oath at 10:30 am within the newly constructed auditorium of the Supreme Court and the swearing-in perform will likely be live-streamed on the courtroom’s web site, the apex courtroom stated in a press release.
Justice Mishra is at the moment the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Notably, Viswanathan, upon the retirement of Justice JB Pardiwala on August 11, 2030, will develop into the Chief Justice of India and stay within the publish until May 25, 2031.Â
SC to  its full energy of 34 judges
The apex courtroom would regain its full energy of 34 judges, together with the CJI, for a short interval as three judges — Justice Okay M Joseph, Justice Ajay Rastogi and Justice V Ramasubramanian — are demitting workplace in the course of the summer time trip itself. The Supreme Court Bar Association will likely be holding a farewell perform for these three judges on Friday itself.
With the retirements of Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and Justice M R Shah, the present energy of judges within the Supreme Court had fallen to 32 as in opposition to the sanctioned energy of 34. The collegium headed by the CJI on May 16 had advisable to the Centre the names of Justice Mishra and senior advocate Viswanathan as judges of the apex courtroom.
Besides the CJI, the collegium additionally includes justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, KM Joseph, Ajay Rastogi and Sanjiv Khanna. The clearance of those two names from the Centre got here inside two working days.
(With PTI inputs)
