Women Chief Justice in Major Indian Court Rooms

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Women Chief Justice in Major Indian Court Rooms

• Women Chief Justice leads the Major Court rooms
  in India

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With the appointment of Justice Indira Banerjee
as the chief justice of Madras High Court, four
major high courts got women chief justices for
the first time in the history of Indian
judiciary. Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta high courts
are already being led by women chief justices.
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• Justice Rohini is the chief justice of Delhi
  High Court.
• Justice Manjula Chellur is the chief justice
  of Bombay High Court.
• Justice Nishita Nirmal Mhatre is the Acting
  Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court

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However, gross under-representation of women
continues in the Supreme Court.
Justice R Banumati is the only woman judge in the
Supreme Court, against the working strength of 28
and sanctioned strength of 31.
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In the first 39 years of the Supreme Court, no
woman was appointed to it. In 1989, Justice
Fathima Beevi was appointed as the first woman
judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Sujatha
Manohar, Justice Rupa Pal, Justice Gyan Sudha
Misra, Justice Ranjan Desai are the other women
judges appointed to the apex court.
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