On May 30, the Chief Justice of India, B R Gavai, administered the oath to three new Supreme Court judges: Justice NV Anjaria, Justice Vijay Bishnoi, and Justice AS Chandurkar. These appointments were announced by Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on May 29, following recommendations from the Supreme Court collegium led by the Chief Justice of India.
With these new judges, the Supreme Court will regain its full strength of 34 judges, including the Chief Justice, though one vacancy will arise soon as Justice Bela M Trivedi is set to retire on June 9. Justice NV Anjaria, born in 1965 in Ahmedabad, comes from a family of lawyers and was the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court before his elevation to the Supreme Court.
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He began his law career in 1988 and has experience in constitutional and civil cases. Justice Vijay Bishnoi, born in 1964 in Jodhpur, was the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court and has practiced law since 1989, mainly in Rajasthan High Court and administrative tribunals. Justice AS Chandurkar, born in 1965, studied law in Pune and started practicing in Mumbai before moving to Nagpur courts; he has been a judge at the Bombay High Court since 2013. These appointments fill the vacancies left by the retirement of former Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Abhay S Oka and Hrishikesh Roy.
