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  CJI BR Gavai to retire on November 23: How the new Chief Justice is appointed, check full process

  India | November 22, 2025 21:39 IST

  The Chief Justice of India serves as the head of the judiciary in India and oversees the administrative functioning of the Supreme Court. The Constitution provides the basic structure for how the Chief Justice is appointed, while long standing conventions built over time shape the actual process.

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  Justice Devendra Upadhyay appointed as new Chief Justice of Delhi High Court

  Delhi | January 14, 2025 20:32 IST

  On January 7, the Supreme Court Collegium had recommended the name of Justice Upadhyay. President Droupadi Murmu appointed him as the next Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.

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  Supreme Court Collegium modifies recommendations for four High Court Chief Justices

  India | September 17, 2024 23:44 IST

  Supreme Court Collegium: Justices Indra Prasanna Mukerji, Suresh Kumar Kait, GS Sandhawalia, and Tashi Rabstan were proposed as Chief Justices for the Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Courts, respectively.

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  SC Collegium recommends 5 judicial officials to be appointed as Gujarat High Court judges

  India | March 03, 2023 2:31 IST

  The SC Collegium recommended five judicial officials Susan Valentine Pinto, Hasmukhbhai Dalsukhbhai Suthar, Jitendra Champaklal Doshi, Mangesh Rameshchandra Mengdey, and Divyeshkumar Amrutlal Joshi, to be appointed as judges of the Gujarat High Court.

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  Former CJI UU Lalit backs Collegium system, says 'Near-perfect model...'

  India | February 18, 2023 14:44 IST

  Collegium system in India: "Initial recommendation made by Supreme Court collegium for appointment of judges to the top court and high courts need not be unanimous and could be by majority vote. But reiteration of name by the Supreme Court Collegium has to be unanimous," former CJI Lalit said.

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  Supreme Court collegium recommends appointment of Chief Justices of four High Courts | DETAILS

  India | February 09, 2023 8:50 IST

  Supreme Court collegium: The collegium, also having Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph, met on February 7 (Tuesday) and recommended the name of Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh for appointment as the chief justice of the Tripura High Court.

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  Centre to soon clear five names recommended by Collegium for Supreme Court judges: Attorney General

  India | February 03, 2023 14:16 IST

  Representing the government, Attorney General R Venkataramani told a bench of Justices SK Kaul and AS Oka that warrant of appointment of these five names is likely to be issued soon.

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  SC Collegium recommends elevation of Gujarat, Allahabad HC chief justices to apex court

  India | January 31, 2023 23:08 IST

  While recommending his name, the Collegium is “conscious of the fact that in the seniority of Judges hailing from the Karnataka High Court, Mr Justice Aravind Kumar stands at Sl. No.02”, it said, adding that at present, the apex court is represented by two Judges from the Karnataka High Court.

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  Ex-SC judge Nariman slams Law Minister Kiren Rijiju for 'diatribe' against collegium

  India | January 28, 2023 14:48 IST

  Nariman was part of the Supreme Court collegium till he retired in August 2021. Rijiju has time and again questioned the collegium system of appointment of judges, noting that it was "opaque and not transparent".

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  'Matter of grave concern': Kiren Rijiju on SC making public IB, RAW 'secret' reports

  India | January 24, 2023 18:50 IST

  He was responding to questions on some recent Supreme Court Collegium resolutions, which contained potions of IB and RAW reports on certain names recommended by the top court for appointment as high court judges, being made public last week.

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  Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju backs retd judge's remarks that SC 'hijacked' Constitution

  India | January 23, 2023 8:38 IST

  Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju shared the video of an interview of Justice RS Sodhi (retd), a former judge of the Delhi Court, saying it is the "voice of a judge" and that majority of people have similar "sane views".

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  Saurabh Kirpal may become first gay judge of constitutional court if...

  India | January 20, 2023 22:23 IST

  Kirpal studied law at the University of Oxford and did his Master of Law at the University of Cambridge before returning to India following a brief stint at the United Nations in Geneva. He has been a practising lawyer for over two decades, including at the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.

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  Include Centre's representatives in SC Collegium, Union Law Minister suggests CJI: Reports

  India | January 16, 2023 15:28 IST

  Centre vs SC Collegium: Reacting to this development, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that this is extremely dangerous. "There should be absolutely no government interference in the judicial appointments."

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  In Centre vs collegium, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju says 'Issue of vacancies will linger till...'

  India | December 15, 2022 18:24 IST

  Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Rijiju said the total number of cases pending in various courts is about to touch five crore. He observed that the impact of such a huge pendency of court cases on the public is obvious.

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  Collegium recommends elevation of 5 High Court judges to Supreme Court

  India | December 14, 2022 6:17 IST

  The 5 judges who have been recommended are Justice Pankaj Mithal, Chief Justice, Rajasthan HC; Justice Sanjay Karol, Chief Justice, Patna HC; Justice PV Sanjay Kumar, Chief Justice, Manipur HC; Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Judge, Patna HC and Justice Manoj Misra,Judge, Allahabad HC.

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  Supreme Court rejects plea seeking details of 2018 Collegium meeting

  India | December 09, 2022 12:08 IST

  SC on collegium meeting: According to reports, the plea had sought a copy of the agenda, a copy of the decisions, and a copy of the resolution of the Collegium meeting.

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  Collegium system: Troubled that govt keeps names pending for long, says SC

  India | December 08, 2022 20:13 IST

  While hearing a matter about the protracted delay by the Centre in clearing the names recommended by the collegium, a bench headed by Justice S K Kaul said, before the last hearing, 19 names were sent back to the collegium by the government.

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  SC issues statement on collegium, says existing system should not be derailed

  India | December 02, 2022 21:02 IST

  A bench of Justices MR Shah and CT Ravikumar said, "Nowadays, it has become a fashion to comment upon earlier decisions (of the collegium) made when they (former judges) were part of the collegium. We don't want to say anything on their comments.

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  Centre returns 20 files to SC Collegium on appointment of HC judges

  India | November 29, 2022 8:14 IST

  The government expressed "strong reservations" about the recommended names as it sent back the files to the collegium on November 25, sources aware of the procedure to appoint Supreme Court and high court judges said.

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  No institution in 'democracy' is perfect: CJI DY Chandrachud on collegium system

  India | November 25, 2022 23:32 IST

  Collegium system in India: CJI said November 26, 1959 was an important day because it was when the constituent assembly adopted the Constitution.