Appointments, transfers, court culture and bar news.
A bench led by Chief Justice Surya Kant tagged petitions by Manoj Kumar Jha and Arun Agrawal with pending challenges to Section 16 of the 2023 Act and listed them for 18 December.
A decade at the Patna Bar, 11 years on the Jharkhand bench and Chief Justiceships at Tripura and Telangana preceded Justice Singh's oath at the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026.
Chief Standing Counsel for Uttar Pradesh before his elevation in 2011, and Chief Justice of first Bombay and then Delhi, Justice Upadhyaya took oath at the Supreme Court on 6 October 2026.
Elevated from the Bar in 2011 and Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court since July 2023, Justice Agarwal is the third woman on the sitting Supreme Court bench.
Justices Sunita Agarwal, Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Aparesh Kumar Singh took oath on 6 October 2026, taking the Court's working strength to 37 against a sanctioned strength of 38.
The Central Government notified the appointment of nine advocates as Additional Judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
A single Collegium meeting reshuffles leadership at four major High Courts and moves two Orissa HC judges out — one to Gujarat, one to Chhattisgarh.
For a few hours on 13 August, every law graduate of NALSAR University of Law's 2026 batch was, on paper, unemployable as a lawyer anywhere in India. By the next morning, the ban was gone, the inquiry behind it was gone too, and the Chief Justice of India had told the regulator that ordered it all that it had "no busine
