Subramaniam, Nariman likely to be SC judges

The move is kind of unprecedented in recent times since the SC judges are not directly appointed like this usually and the last such instance was in 1999 when Santosh Hegde (who later became the Karnataka Lokayukta) was appointed.

The meeting of the SC Collegium  was chaired by the Chief Justice of India, RM Lodha while the President of India will take the final call.

Gopal Subramanium is  a Senior Advocate who practices primarily in the Supreme Court  and the Delhi High Court. He also served as the Solicitor General of India from 2009-2011. He was on the committee with late Justice Verma that came up with the landmark anti-rape law in India after the New Delhi fatal bus gangrape.

He has acted as the Special Public Prosecutor in the prosecution of Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist who carried out attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 and was hanged later.
He was the lead counsel for the Union of India in the matter of Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India, wherein he defended state-sponsored reservations for Other Backward Classes of persons in India.

He also acted as lead counsel for the Government of India in 2010-2011 in litigation concerning irregularities in allocation of 2G radio-spectrum bandwidth to various private telecom operators.

Rohington Nariman is on the other hand a senior counsel of the Supreme Court who also served as the Solicitor General of India from July 2011 to February 2013.

He practiced Maritime law at Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens in New York. He also practiced in the High Court of Bombay for 3 years.   Nariman was made a Senior Counsel in 1993 by the then Chief Justice of India,  Mr. Justice Venkatachaliah, who amended the Supreme Court rules in order to make him a Senior Counsel at the young age of 37 years against the mandatory 45 years of age.

He has been practising in the Supreme Court for the last 30 years, and has more than 500 reported Supreme Court Judgments to his credit. He is an expert in Comparative Constitutional Law and Civil Law.