New Delhi, June 1 -- The Centre on Monday notified the appointment of five new judges to the Supreme Court of India, taking the headcount of the country's top court to 38 (Chief Justice plus 37 judges) from 34, according to a statement by the union law and justice ministry.

The newly notified judges are: Justice Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice, High Court of Punjab and Haryana; Justice Shree Chandrashekhar, Chief Justice, High Court of Bombay; Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, Chief Justice, High Court of Madhya Pradesh; Justice Arun Palli, Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh; and senior advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana.

Four of these were already sitting high court judges, while Mohana became only the second woman ever to be app...