Has the time come at last? According to the Chief Justice of India, the time had come for the appointment of a woman as CJI. He was responding to a plea filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association asking that the Supreme Court intervene to ensure the appointment of more women as judges in high courts. Considering the scale of gender imbalance in the higher judiciary, the plea was a modest one. No woman has been appointed as CJI so far; in 25 high courts today, there are 81 women judges against 1,078 male and there is one woman among 29 judges in the Supreme Court. The CJI’s statement opened up the horizon of possibility. But he also qualified it, adding that according to the chief justices of high courts, women advocates often refused to become judges because of domestic responsibilities, such as the education of their children. In other words, the ‘time’ for a woman CJI may have come, but women did not have the time because of duties at home.
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: Saturday, April 17, 2021, 1:57 PM IST
Analysis: Here s what the Supreme Court and High Courts of India had to say this week
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This segment highlights the important issues of the Indian Legal System of the week objectively and with a magnified legal lens factually.
What Made Headlines In The Courts Across India This Week?
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[ISRO Espionage Case] The Supreme Court Bench directed the CBI to treat the Jain Committee Report as preliminary Inquiry Report & proceed further without making the Report Public in the ISRO Espionage Case. The development came after the panel appointed by the Supreme Court to probe the illegal arrest of Scientist
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Supreme Court Judge Rohinton Fali Nariman Says Not Too Long Before We Have 1st Women CJI
Rohinton Fali Nariman says that there isn t much time before we see the first woman CJI. He said it was unfortunate that we haven t had one until now.
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While delivering a lecture at the 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial, Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Friday hoped for the first woman Chief Justice of India. He also said that the time is not far when we will have the first woman CJI in India. He was speaking on the topic of Great Women Of History’.