Collegium Recommends Three High Court Chiefs for Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Collegium recommended three high court chief justices for elevation to the Supreme Court on September 28, 2026: Sunita Agarwal of the Gujarat High Court, Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya of the Delhi High Court and Aparesh Kumar Singh of the Telangana High Court. The recommendation is not a formal appointment. The names will proceed through the established appointment procedure, and no formal appointments have been reported. The Collegium made the recommendations at a meeting on September 28, according to its resolution published on the Supreme Court’s official website. The proposed elevations would bring the three chief justices to the country’s top court, but the next steps remain part of the appointment process. The available information does not specify when that process will conclude or whether all three recommendations will result in appointments. A report said the recommendations would fill three vacancies in a court with a sanctioned strength of 38 judges and 34 serving judges. Those figures were not independently corroborated in the other supplied accounts. The Collegium’s recommendation itself does not establish the timing or outcome of the appointments.