Five judges were elevated to the Supreme Court after the Centre cleared the proposal made by the Collegium. The strength of judges in the top court rose to 32 with President Droupadi Murmu's approval on Saturday (4th February 2023).

The names of the five judges were recommended by the Collegium in December 2022 and three more names have been sent to the Centre on January 31, 2023.

The sanctioned strength of the number of judges in the Apex Court is 34. Currently, the Supreme Court is functioning with 27 judges, including the Chief Justice of India.

Five appointed judges are :

(1) Pankaj Mithal (CJ of Rajasthan)
(2) Sanjay Karol, (CJ of Patna)
(3) PV Sanjay Kumar, (CJ of Manipur)
(4) Ahsanuddin Amanullah (judge, Patna HC)
(5) Manoj Misra (judge, Allahabad HC)

Justice Pankaj Mithal :

* Presently, he is the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court. Prior to this, he was the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court. Before his elevation as Chief Justice, he was a judge of the Allahabad High Court.

* Justice Mithal was enrolled in the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh in the year 1985 and started practising in the high court as an advocate.

Justice Sanjay Karol :

* Sanjay Karol has been the Chief Justice of Patna High Court since November 2019. Prior to this, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Tripura. He was appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.

* Justice Karol enrolled as an advocate in the year 1986 and started his practice in the high court and supreme court as well.

Justice PV Sanjay Kumar :

* He has been the Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court since 2021. Previously, he was a judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has also served as a judge at the Andhra Pradesh High court.

* Justice Kumar was enrolled as a member of the Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh in August 1988.

Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah :

* Presently, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah is a judge of the Patna High Court. Elevated as judge of the Patna High Court in 2011, he was then transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court in 2021. Thereafter, he was re-transferred to the Patna High Court in June 2022.

* Justice Amanullah was enrolled with the Bihar State Bar Council in September 1991.

Justice Manoj Misra :

* Presently, Manoj Sinha is the judge of the Allahabad High Court. He took an oath as a judge in 2011.

* Justice Misra was enrolled as an advocate on December 12, 1988, and practised in the civil, revenue, criminal and constitutional sides of the Allahabad High Court.

Source : India Today