New Delhi, June 2 -- The Union government on Monday notified the appointment of four high court chief justices and senior advocate V Mohana as judges of the Supreme Court, four days after the apex court collegium recommended their elevation, paving the way for one of the most significant rounds of appointments to the top court in recent years following the expansion of its sanctioned strength. Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal announced the appointments through a post on X. "In exercise of the power conferred by clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President of India, after consultation with Chief Justice of India, is pleased to appoint the following as Judges of the Supreme Court of India. I convey my best wishes to them," Meghwal's post stated. The appointments notified by the Centre are of justices Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli and senior advocate V Mohana. The names were recommended on May 27 by the Supreme Court collegium led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant. The five appointees are expected to be sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The appointments come days after the Union government increased the sanctioned strength of the Supreme Court from 33 to 37 judges, excluding the CJI, through the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance, 2026. The May 16 move was aimed at addressing mounting pendency, which has crossed 92,000 cases, and facilitating regular constitution benches. The latest appointments will take the court's strength to 36 judges, apart from the CJI, with just one position remaining vacant. With these appointments, the collegium sought to balance regional representation, judicial seniority, merit and gender diversity in the composition of the apex court. Among the newly appointed judges, Justice Sheel Nagu currently heads the Punjab and Haryana high court. Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, who has been the chief justice of the Bombay high court, began his judicial career in the Jharkhand high court and was elevated as a judge there in 2013. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, who was originally a judge of the Delhi high court and recently appointed chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court, has handled several important constitutional, commercial, and criminal law matters during his tenure on the bench. Justice Arun Palli, who presently heads the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh high court, began practice at the Punjab and Haryana high court in 1988 and was designated senior advocate in 2007. The appointment of senior advocate V Mohana assumes particular significance as it will add another woman judge to the Supreme Court, which currently has only one woman judge....