The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has in the first year of his tenure as top judge, which began in November 2022, recommended 14 judges to the apex court.
Thirteen of them were either Chief Justices or senior puisne judges of High Courts and one, senior advocate K.V. Viswanathan, was a direct elevation from the Supreme Court Bar.
The Collegium resolutions spell out the criteria for considering judges for the Supreme Court. Seniority in their respective parent High Courts and in the All India High Court Judges List was the foremost. The Justice Chandrachud Collegium recommendations show that, besides seniority, merit, performance and integrity of the judges in the zone of consideration were also under scrutiny.
