The Union government has appointed four high court chief justices and senior advocate V Mohana as judges of the Supreme Court, following the expansion of its sanctioned strength.
Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced the appointments through a post on X, stating that the President of India, after consultation with Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, has pleased to appoint the following as Judges of the Supreme Court of India.
The appointments notified by the Centre are of justices Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli and senior advocate V Mohana.
The five appointees are expected to be sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The appointments come days after the Union government increased the sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court from 33 to 37 judges, excluding the CJI, through the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance, 2026.
The latest appointments will take the court’s strength to 36 judges, apart from the CJI, with just one position remaining vacant.
Among the newly appointed judges, Justice Sheel Nagu currently heads the Punjab and Haryana high court, while Justice Shree Chandrashekhar has been the chief justice of the Bombay high court.
Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva was originally a judge of the Delhi high court and recently appointed chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court, and Justice Arun Palli presently heads the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh high court.
The appointment of senior advocate V Mohana assumes particular significance as it will add another woman judge to the Supreme Court, which currently has only one woman judge.
The present round of appointments comes at a crucial juncture for the apex court, which is not only adjusting to its expanded strength but is also facing a series of impending retirements.
