<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/shameful-that-survival-of-20000-saplings-couldnt-be-ensured-23600983" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Chief Justice</a> of India Justice Surya Kant will now head the five-member Supreme Court collegium as his predecessor Justice B R Gavai demitted office on Sunday.
The reconstitution of five and three-member collegium is a consequential event after the superannuation of former <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/courts-cannot-fix-timeline-for-governor-prez-to-give-assent-to-bills-passed-by-assembly-sc-23604090" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">CJI Gavai</a> on November 23.
Besides CJI Kant, the five-member collegium which selects apex court <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/hate-speech-plea-against-raj-thackeray-supreme-court-asks-petitioner-to-move-bombay-high-court-23587974" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">judges</a> and decides on transfers of high court judges, would now comprise CJI Kant and
Justices Vikram Nath, BV Nagarathna, JK Maheshwari and MM Sundresh.
The three-member collegium, which selects <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-local-body-elections-constitutional-dilemma-on-obc-quota-in-zp-polls-says-chandrashekhar-bawankule-23604626" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">high court</a> judges, will have the CJI and Justices Vikram Nath and BV Nagarathna as members.
Even though Justice Kant has a tenure of nearly 15 months as CJI, the collegium will undergo only one change when Justice Maheshwari retires on June 28, 2026.
Justice PS Narasimha will become a member of the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/presidential-reference-supreme-court-rejects-objections-of-opposition-ruled-states-23604157" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">collegium</a>. After CJI Kant retires, Justice JB Pardiwala will enter the collegium.
The collegium system is a process for appointing and transferring judges in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/sc-collegium-approves-proposal-for-appointment-of-14-lawyers-as-bombay-hc-judges-23590345" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">higher judiciary</a>.
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Following the retirement of Justice B R Gavai, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant will head the reconstituted Supreme Court collegium responsible for appointments and transfers in the higher judiciary 

CJI Kant to head SC collegium after predecessor Gavai demits office

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