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Justice Akil Kureshi Elevation: Should Token Gender Empowerment Trump Fairness?
Presenting the current impasse in the Collegium as one that could cost India its first female CJI would be a mistake.
Justice A.A. Kureshi. Photo: LiveLaw
Women19/Feb/2021
I am not sure how another reader will interpret this headline but to me it appears to suggest that âthere is an impasse (Dictionary definitions: â(1) a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock. (2) a road or way that has no outlet; cul-de-sacâ) in the Collegium (presumably, of the Supreme Court of India) and this creates the possibility that India will be deprived of a woman Chief Justice of India in 2027.
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