Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill 2019
August 12 , 2019 1848 days 1017 0
President has signed into law a Bill which seeks to increase the sanctioned strength of judges in the Supreme Court from 30 to 33 besides the Chief Justice of India.
The move to increase the strength of judges by 3 or 10 per cent comes against the backdrop of rising cases in the top court which stand at nearly 60,000.
The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill was passed by Parliament earlier.