UPSC Indian Polity and Civics The Union Judiciary Question Bank Judiciary

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    The power to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court of India is vested in

    A) the President of India

    B) the Parliament

    C) the Chief Justice of India

    D) the Law Commission

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    It is the Parliament which has the power to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court of India. Parliament increased the number of judges from the original eight in 1950 to eleven in 1956, fourteen in 1960, eighteen in 1978, twenty-six in 1986 and thirty-one in 2008.


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