On Monday, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud administered the oath of office to Justice Pankaj Mithal, Justice Sanjay Karol, Justice Sanjay Kumar, Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice Manoj Misra, as Supreme Court judge.
President Droupadi Murmu signed the warrants of appointing five new judges to the Supreme Court on Saturday.
The SC Collegium on Dec 13, 2022 had recommended these names for the elevation.Justice Pankaj Mithal: Justice Mithal, whose parent cadre is the Allahabad High Court, had been serving as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court since October 14 last year.
Born on June 17, 1961, Justice Mithal is a 1982 commerce graduate from Allahabad University. He completed his LLB in 1985 from Meerut College and enrolled as an advocate in the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh the same year.
He started practising in the Allahabad High Court in 1985 and served as the standing counsel for the Uttar Pradesh Avas Evam Vikas Parishad. He was also the standing counsel of Dr B R Ambedkar University, Agra, between 1990 and February 2006.
Justice Mithal was elevated as an additional judge of the Allahabad High Court on July 7, 2006, and took oath as a permanent judge on July 2, 2008. He took oath as the Chief Justice of the Common High Court for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh on January 4, 2021.
Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah: Justice Amanullah of the Patna High Court is the fourth judge in the list who has been appointed for the judgeship in the apex court.
Born on May 11, 1963, he enrolled with the Bihar State Bar Council on September 27, 1991, and was standing counsel for the state government from March 2006 to August 2010.
He was a government advocate in the Patna High Court till his elevation as a judge in the same court on June 20, 2011. He was transferred to the Andhra Pradesh High Court on October 10, 2021, and transferred back to the Patna High Court on June 20, 2022.
Justice Manoj Misra: Justice Misra was born on June 2, 1965. He enrolled as an advocate on December 12, 1988, and was elevated as an additional judge of the Allahabad High Court on November 21, 2011. He took oath as a permanent judge on August 6, 2013.
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