{"id":312571,"date":"2019-05-24T08:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312571"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T08:56:23","slug":"four-new-judges-sworn-in-supreme-court-at-full-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/four-new-judges-sworn-in-supreme-court-at-full-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Four new judges sworn in, Supreme court at full strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Justice of India\u00a0Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0on Friday administered the oath of office to four new judges appointed to the Supreme Court. With the swearing-in of the four judges, the Supreme Court will finally sit at its\u00a0full strength of 31 judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a ceremony held today morning, Justices\u00a0BR Gavai,\u00a0Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose\u00a0and\u00a0AS Bopanna\u00a0were sworn into office in the presence of several other sitting top court judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Their appointments were\u00a0cleared by the Central Government on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice BR Gavai had been serving as a judge of Bombay High Court prior to his present appointment as a Supreme Court judge and Justice Surya Kant was the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Bose and Justice Bopanna were the Chief Justices of the Jharkhand High Court and the Gauhati High Court respectively prior to their elevation to the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice of India\u00a0Ranjan Gogoi\u00a0on Friday administered the oath of office to four new judges appointed to the Supreme Court. With the swearing-in of the four judges, the Supreme Court will finally sit at its\u00a0full strength of 31 judges. In a ceremony held today morning, Justices\u00a0BR Gavai,\u00a0Surya Kant, Aniruddha Bose\u00a0and\u00a0AS Bopanna\u00a0were sworn into office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312572,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312571\/revisions\/312572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}