SUPREME COURT COLLEGIUM MEMBERSHIP CHANGES WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO NEW JUSTICES

Keywords – High court, supreme Court, collegium system, chief justice, judges.

The existing five-judge collegium system of the Supreme Court has underwent a change this summer vacation with the retirement of two justices, Justice K M Joseph & Justice Ajay Rastogi. The new two justices appointed as new members of the five bench collegium are Justice B R Gawai & Justice Suryakant.

  This collegium system send or recommends names for the appointment of judges of the Supreme Court. The other collegium system members are – Chief Justice of India, D Y Chandrachud, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul & Justice Sanjeev Khanna.

    The recommendations for the High Court judges are made by a three member collegium system which comprises of the Chief Justice of India and next two senior judges. Now after the retirement of K M Joseph, Sanjeev Khanna has now became a member of the three bench collegium system.

  After completing it’s vacation, the Supreme Court will reopen on 3^rd of July.

Written by – Yashashvi Mishra, College – University of Allahabad, Year – 2^nd year 4^th semester, an intern under Legal Vidhiya

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