President appoints Justice Khanna and Dinesh Maheshwari as SC judges

The elevation of Justices Khanna and Maheshwari comes despite protests from a sitting judge of the top court, a former judge of the Delhi High Court and the Bar Council of India

The President has appointed Justice Sanjiv Khanna of the Delhi High Court and Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, the current chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, as Supreme Court judges with effect from the day they assume office, an official notification from the government said.

The names of Justice Khanna and Maheshwari had been recommended by a five-member collegium led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi. The collegium, which has Justices A K Sikri, S A Bobde, N V Ramana and Arun Mishra of the Supreme Court, other than Justice Gogoi, had on January 11 recommended the elevation