New Delhi: Chief Justice of India B R Gavai on Friday administered oath to Bombay Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Patna Excessive Court docket Chief Justice Vipul Manubhai Pancholi.The 2 have been elevated to the Supreme Court docket on August 27.
With their elevation, the apex court docket is ready to regain its full working energy of 34 judges, together with the CJI.
Justice Pancholi will probably be in line to change into the CJI in October 2031 after Justice Joymalya Bagchi’s retirement on October 2, 2031.
He’s scheduled to imagine the CJI’s workplace on October 3, 2031, and retire on Could 27, 2033.
On August 25, the apex court docket collegium really useful to the Centre the names of Justices Aradhe and Pancholi for elevation as prime court docket judges.
Collegium member and Supreme Court docket’s Justice B V Nagarathna, nevertheless, registered a powerful dissent to the apex court docket collegium’s suggestion to raise Justice Pancholi to the highest court docket, saying his appointment could be “counter-productive” to the judiciary.
Justice Nagarathna, the one girl choose within the prime court docket, recorded her dissent on varied counts.
Sources aware about the event stated Justice Nagarathna, in her dissent, famous that pushing forward together with his appointment might erode “no matter credibility the collegium system nonetheless holds”.
Born on April 13, 1964, Justice Aradhe was appointed as as further choose of the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Court docket on December 29, 2009 and as a everlasting choose on February 15, 2011.
He was transferred to the Excessive Court docket of Jammu and Kashmir and took oath on September 20, 2016. He was appointed as an Appearing Chief Justice of the Excessive Court docket of Jammu and Kashmir on Could 11, 2018.
Justice Aradhe was transferred to the Karnataka Excessive Court docket the place he took oath as a choose on November 17, 2018.
He assumed cost because the Appearing Chief Justice of the Karnataka Excessive Court docket on July 3, 2022 and functioned as such as much as October 14, 2022.
He was appointed because the Chief Justice of the Telangana Excessive Court docket on July 19, 2023 and took oath of workplace on July 23, 2023.
Justice Aradhe was transferred because the Chief Justice of the Bombay Excessive Court docket and assumed cost on January 21, 2025.
He was enrolled as an advocate on July 12, 1988 and practised on civil and constitutional, arbitration and firm issues within the Madhya Pradesh Excessive Court docket. He was designated as a senior advocate in April 2007.
Born on Could 28, 1968 at Ahmedabad, Justice Pancholi was elevated as an Extra Decide of the Gujarat Excessive Court docket on October 1, 2014 and was confirmed as a everlasting choose on June 10, 2016.
He was transferred to the Patna Excessive Court docket and took oath as a choose there on July 24, 2023.
Justice Pancholi turned the Chief Justice of the Patna Excessive Court docket on July 21, 2025.
He entered the Bar in September 1991 and began apply as an advocate within the Gujarat Excessive Court docket.
He was appointed as an Assistant Authorities Pleader and Extra Public Prosecutor within the Gujarat Excessive Court docket and served as such for seven years until March 2006.
He additionally labored as a visiting college at Sir LA Shah Legislation Faculty, Ahmedabad, from December 1993 for 21 years.
