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The Collegium is of the considered view that at present the following persons are more deserving and suitable in all respects than other Chief Justices and senior puisne Judges of High Courts, for being appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court of India:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Mr Justice Aniruddha Bose,<br \/>\nChief Justice, Jharkhand High Court<br \/>\n(PHC: Calcutta) and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Mr Justice A.S. Bopanna,<br \/>\nChief Justice, Gauhati High Court<br \/>\n(PHC: Karnataka)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Collegium comprising of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and S.A. Bobde, N.V.Ramana, Arun Mishra and R.F. Nariman, JJ., therefore, recommends that Justices Aniruddha Bose and A.S. Bopanna be appointed as Judges in the Supreme Court of India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Collegium Resolutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Supreme Court of India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Dated: 12-04-2019]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the sanctioned strength of 31 Judges, the Supreme Court of India is presently functioning with 27 Judges, leaving 04 clear vacancies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":154914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[34972,34971,14491,34517,24783],"class_list":["post-213768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appointments","category-news","tag-a-s-bopanna","tag-aniruddha-bose","tag-collegium","tag-recommendation","tag-supreme-court-judges"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC Collegium | Elevation of Judges in the Supreme Court | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/19\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC Collegium | Elevation of Judges in the Supreme Court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Against the sanctioned strength of 31 Judges, the Supreme Court of India is presently functioning with 27 Judges, leaving 04 clear vacancies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/04\/19\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-19T12:00:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-04-19T12:34:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/19\\\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/19\\\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"headline\":\"SC Collegium | Elevation of Judges in the Supreme Court\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-19T12:00:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-19T12:34:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/19\\\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/19\\\/sc-collegium-elevation-of-judges-in-the-supreme-court\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/09\\\/Supreme-Court_Colour.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"A.S. 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