Three judges appointed to Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Collegium on Monday recommended the appointment of Karnataka High Court Chief Justice N V Anjaria, Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi, and Bombay High Court's Justice A S Chandurkar as judges of the top court.

New Delhi: The Union government on Thursday notified the appointment of Justices N V Anjaria, Vijay Bishnoi, and A S Chandurkar as judges of the top court.

In exercise of the powers conferred by the Constitution, the President, after consultation with Chief Justice of India, is pleased to appoint Justice Anjaria, Chief Justice, High Court of Karnataka, Justice Bishnoi, Chief Justice, High Court of Gauhati and Justice Chandurkar, judge, High Court of Bombay as judges of the Supreme Court, Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a post on X.

With this, the number of judges in the Supreme Court has increased to 34, the sanctioned strength.

All three newly appointed judges would be administered the oath of office at 10.30 am on Friday, as per a notification issued by the SC Registry.

The Supreme Court Collegium had on Monday recommended the elevation of the three judges.

Justice Anjaria originally belonged to the Gujarat High Court and Justice Bishnoi from the Rajasthan High Court.

Notably, three vacancies in the top court arose after retirement of then CJI Sanjiv Khanna, and Justices Bela M Trivedi and A S Oka earlier this month.

Born on March 23, 1965 at Ahmedabad in Mandvi-Kachchh; family of lawyers, Justice Anjaria graduated from H L College of Commerce, Ahmedabad and LL B from Sir L A Shah Law College in 1988. He obtained Masters Degree in Law in 1989 from University School of Law, Ahmedabad.

His father was also in judiciary.

He started practice in the High Court of Gujarat from August 1988 by joining chamber ofS N Shelat, senior advocate. He conducted matters involving constitutional issue and all categories of civil cases, labour and service. Had been Standing Counsel / Panel Advocate for High Court and subordinate Courts, State Election Commission, Gujarat Information Commission, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Municipalities, etc.

He has served as a senior panel counsel for Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), senior Standing Counsel for BSNL, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Counsel for Technical Education (AICTE), National Counsel for Teacher Education (NCTE).

He was elevated as Additional Judge, High Court of Gujarat on November 21, 2011 and confirmed as permanent Judge on September 06, 2013. Justice Anjaria took oath as the Chief Justice of High Court of Karnataka on February 25, 2024.

"Justice Bishnoi was born on March 26, 1964, in Jodhpur. He got himself enrolled as an advocate on July 8, 1989. He practised at the Rajasthan High Court and the Central Administrative Tribunal at Jodhpur in a wide range of areas such as civil, criminal, Constitutional, service, election cases, etc. He also served as Additional Central Government Standing Counsel during the years 2000-2004.

Justice Bishnoi was appointed as Additional Judge of the Rajasthan High Court on January 8, 2013. He took oath as a permanent judge of the Rajasthan High Court on January 7, 2015.

He functioned as the Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court on February 5, 2024.

Justice Chandurkar was born on April 7, 1965. He completed his schooling at St Vincent's High School, Pune and graduated from Ness Wadia College, Pune and also ILS Law College, Pune.

After obtaining a Law Degree, he joined the Bar on July 21, 1988. Commenced practice in the Chambers of B N Naik, senior advocate, Mumbai, who was later elevated to the Bench.

He shifted to Nagpur in 1992 and practised in various Courts and handled matters of various nature. He has authored two books on "The Maharashtra Municipal Council Nagar Panchayats & Industrial Townships Act, 1965 and The Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999.

He was elevated as Additional Judge of the Bombay High Court on June 21, 2013.