The Lok Sabha has passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges), Amendment Bill, 2019 to increase the strength of judges in the Apex Court to 33 from the present 30, excluding the CJI.The bill was introduced after CJI Ranjan Gogoi, requested the Prime Minister to consider the same on account of huge pendency of cases in the institution. The CJI was recently quoted saying "In India, we have a...
