.jpeg)
.jpeg)
BIG NEWS
- Singapore High Commissioner among stranded passengers amid IndiGo's flight chaos
- RBI trims policy interest rate by 25bps to 5.25%, loans to get cheaper
- Sebi bans fin influencer Avadhut Sathe, firm from securities market; orders Rs 546 cr disgorgement
- IndiGo says ops to be fully normal by Feb 10, seeks FDTL relaxations; cancels over 550 flights
- SC asks BCI to ensure 30 pc quota for women lawyers in executive committees of state bar councils
- Actor Chandrachur Singh seeks admin intervention in ancestral property dispute in Aligarh
- Visit India to see Cheetah in all its splendour: PM Modi on International Cheetah Day
- Delhi MCD bypolls: BJP wins 7 wards, AAP 3, Congress opens account
- Russia to sign MoU to deepen civil nuclear cooperation with India
- Census to be done in two phases between April 2026 and Feb 2027: govt
All-woman bench to hear matters in SC
Public Lokpal
December 01, 2022
All-woman bench to hear matters in SC
New Delhi : Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has constituted an all-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M Trivedi to hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters on Thursday.
This is the third occasion in the history of the apex court that an all-women bench has been constituted.
The two-judge bench is currently sitting in Court number 11 of the top court.
The bench has 32 matters listed before it, starting with 10 transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and followed by 10 bail matters.
The first all-women bench was set up in 2013 when a bench of Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai was constituted followed by a bench of Justices R Banumathi and Indira Banerjee in 2018.
There are three women judges in the top court at present including Justice Kohli, B V Nagarathna, and Trivedi.
Justice Nagarathna is also set to become first woman Chief Justice in 2027.
The apex court currently has a strength of 27 judges including the CJI, against a sanctioned strength of 34.
