SC Gets Two New Judges As Justices Mishra, Viswanathan Are Sworn-In

The Supreme Court today got two new judges. Justice Prashant Mishra and senior lawyer, K V Viswanathan took oath as judges of the Supreme Court today.

Both were sworn in by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud.

On Thursday the Central government had cleared their appointments. The notification announcing the appointment was published on the website of the Union Law Ministry's Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court's Collegium had recommended their appointment by way of a resolution on May 16.

The Collegium comprising CJI Chandrachud and Justices S K Kaul, K M Joseph, Ajay Rastogi and Rajiv Khanna took note of the fact that there was only one member from the bar directly appointed to the Supreme Court.

"In their considered opinion, Mr KV Viswanathan, Senior Advocate is eminently suitable for being appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court," read the resolution.

Viswanathan was born on May 16 1966. He will serve as judge until May 25 2031. On the retirement of Justice J B Pardiwala on August 11 2030, Viswanathan will be in line to assume the post of Chief Justice of India until his retirement.

Viswanathan is the tenth name in the list of lawyers to be appointed as Supreme Court judge directly from the bar.

The other judges to be appointed directly from the bar were, S M Sikri, S C Roy, Kuldip Singh, Santosh Hegde, Rohinton Nariman, U U Lalit, L Nageswara Rao, Indu Malhotra and P S Narasimha.