The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India. It is the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India. It also has the power of judicial review. The Supreme Court, which consists of the Chief Justice of India and a maximum of fellow 33 judges, has extensive powers in the form of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India. However, a high court exercises its original civil and criminal jurisdiction only if the subordinate courts are not authorized by law to try such matters for lack of peculiar or territorial jurisdiction. High courts may also enjoy original jurisdiction in certain matters, if so designated, especially by the constitution, a state law or union law.
Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran also known as R. V. Raveendran is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. On 13 October 2011, the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice R Raveendran, inexplicably, nearly halved the sum of compensation awarded to victims by the [Delhi high court], and slashed punitive damages to be paid by cinema owners, the Ansal brothers, from ₹2.5 crore to ₹25 lakh .. He retired the next day, 14 October 2011, upon reaching superannuation. On 27 October 2021, Supreme Court of India appointed Justice RV Raveendran to supervise a three-member committee that will examine the allegations of unauthorised surveillance using Israeli spyware Pegasus.
Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India created during the British rule. It provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment, government schemes, scholarships and politics. Based on provisions in the Indian Constitution, it allows the Union Government and the States and Territories of India to set reserved quotas or seats, at particular percentage in Education Admissions, Employments, Political Bodies, Promotions, etc., for "socially and educationally backward citizens."
K. Jayachandra Reddy was a judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Pothula Vigneswara Rao spearheaded the Dalit Mala Mahanadu movement in Andhra Pradesh to fight against the categorisation of Scheduled Castes into A, B, C, D groups.
Jasti Chelameswar is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He retired on 22 June 2018 as the second most senior supreme court judge. He previously served as the chief justice of the Kerala High Court from 2010 to 2011 and the Gauhati High Court from 2007 to 2010. He was also one of the four judges who held a controversial press conference against Chief Justice Dipak Misra.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019, having previously served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha, having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge in the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010, and then was transferred as a judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2010 to 2011 where he later was the Chief Justice from 2011 to 2012. He is also a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Dipak Misra is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 till 2 October 2018. He is also former Chief Justice of the Patna High Court and Delhi High Court. He is the nephew of Justice Ranganath Misra, who was the 21st Chief Justice from 1990 to 1991.
Kurian Joseph is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Previously, he has served as chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court and judge of the Kerala High Court.
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana is a former Indian judge and journalist who served as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
Gorla Rohini is a former Indian judge and currently head of a government commission investigating categories of Other Backward Classes in India. She was the first female Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and also served as a judge on the Andhra Pradesh High Court.
Abhay Manohar Sapre is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He served as the chief justice of the Gauhati High Court from 19 October 2013 to 12 August 2014 and as the first chief justice of the Manipur High Court from 23 March 2013 to 18 October 2013 and he is also a former judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court, Rajasthan High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court.
S. Abdul Nazeer is the 24th Governor of Andhra Pradesh. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and a former judge of the Karnataka High Court. He was appointed as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh on 12 February 2023.
Deepak Gupta is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Tripura High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court. He has also served as a judge of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, serving as the head of its green bench.
B. Sudarshan Reddy is the former justice of the Supreme Court of India and the first Lokayukta of Goa.
Hrishikesh Roy is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. He is also former judge of the Gauhati High Court.
Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Puligoru Venkata Sanjay Kumar is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Manipur High Court. He has also served as a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Telangana High Court.
