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SC judge's status in 2025
May 23 , 2025
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- Since its establishment in 1950, the Supreme Court has only had seven judges from the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes.
- Only 3.6% of the Supreme Court's nominees for the position of judges of various high courts since November 2022 were from scheduled castes and even fewer from scheduled tribes
- The collegium suggested 221 names to be high court judges.
- Of these, 8 were belonged to scheduled castes and just 7 to scheduled tribes.
- Some of these 221 names are yet to be appointed by the central government.
- Other backward castes or OBCs fared better at about 14.5% or 32 nominees while women came in at 15.3% or 34 nominees.
- A total of 124 persons, named by the top court’s collegium, belonged to the general category, but they were not women, or minorities, making up about 56% of the nominees.
- About 6% of the judges nominated for these roles were related to other judges.
- The Supreme Court did not give a reason for putting out the press release, but said it was for "knowledge and awareness of the public”.
- The SC’s data also showed that a little over half the recommendations (52.9%) for the positions of High Court judges came from the Bar, indicating advocates-turned-judges are in a majority.
- Alternatively, the collegium can also recommend names of already-serving judges from district courts for the position of High Court judges.
- There is no identity-based reservation in the Supreme Court.
- The Supreme Court Collegium makes nominations for the position of a High Court judge based on merit alone, a person's gender or caste identity should not play any role in the same.
- District judiciary is diverse due to reservations in every state, but district judges are not elevated often enough or for long enough for their diversity to reflect in the High Court.
- Data from the Department of Justice showed that there were 1,122 positions as judges in high courts and the Supreme Court.
- The SC provided the data in two parts—from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024, and 11 November 2024 onwards till date (May 05, 2025) — marking the tenures of India’s last two chief justices.
- Both these chief justices are related to former judiciary members.
- Chandrachud is the son of Justice Yeshwant Chandrachud, who was chief justice from February 1978 to 1985.
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