Four new judges of the Supreme Court will be sworn-in on September 23, setting the strength of the SC to 34. According to reports, four judges out of the total Bench are classmates from law college. With the appointment of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Hrishikesh Roy, the Supreme Court will have four batchmates from the Campus Law Centre in Delhi University. Reportedly, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Sanjay K Kaul were also in the same batch. All these four judges graduated from Campus Law Centre in 1982. It is also reported that Justice Chandrachud and Justice Kaul were also batchmates at St. Stephens College. 

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Judges' Backgrounds 

Justice DY Chandrachud was the first one to be elevated to the top court in 2016. He was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court in 2000 and was made Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court in 2013.

Justice Bhat has practised before the Delhi High Court, Supreme Court, and other judicial fora. He was appointed an Additional Judge of Delhi High Court in 2004 and was made a permanent judge in 2006.

Justice Roy was appointed an additional judge of Gauhati High Court in 2006 and was made permanent judge in 2008. He was then transferred from the Gauhati HC and was shifted to the Kerala HC. He was made the Chief Justice of the Kerala HC in 2018.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was elevated as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court in 2001. He became the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2013, before being transferred to the Madras HC as its Chief Justice in 2014. He was elevated as an SC judge in 2017.

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DY Chandrachud in line to be CJI

Out of the four batchmates, Justice DY Chandrachud is slated to become the Chief Justice of India (CJI) on November 9, 2022. After his appointment, he and his father Y.V. Chandrachud will be the only father-son duo to have headed the apex court. According to reports, Supreme Court judges retire at the age of 65. In cases when two judges are elevated on the same date to the Supreme Court, the one who swears-in first is given the priority. 

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