New Delhi, May 18 -- The Union government has promulgated an ordinance increasing the sanctioned strength of judges in the Supreme Court from 33 to 37, excluding the Chief Justice of India (CJI), clearing the decks for the appointment of four additional judges to the country's highest court amid mounting pendency and growing demands for more constitution benches. The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance, 2026 received President Droupadi Murmu's assent and was published in the Gazette of India on Saturday. The ordinance amends Section 2 of the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956 by substituting the word "thirty-three" with "thirty-seven". The ordinance was promulgated under Article 123 of the Constitution since Parliam...