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NEW DELHI: Nearly 100 years after women were allowed to become lawyers, an association of women advocates moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking fair representation of women among high court judges and cited their abysmally low presence in constitutional courts.
The SC Women Lawyers Association, through advocate Sneha Kalita, said in the last 71 years of the SC’s functioning, only eight of the 247 judges were women. At present, Justice Indira Banerjee is the lone woman judge in the SC. The first one was Fathima Beevi, appointed in 1987.
Seeking to intervene in a pending case in which the SC is taking stock of delay in completion of the process for appointment of HC judges, the association said as against the sanctioned strength of 1,080 HC judges, only 661 were in place, including 73 women, who constituted 11% of HC judges. While Madras HC has 13 women judges, the highest among the HCs, there are no women judges in HCs in the states of Manipur, Meghalaya, Bihar, Tripura and
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Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA) has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking directions to consider meritorious women lawyers practicing in the SC and the High Courts for appointment as judges in the High Courts.
Through this application, the SCWLA seeks to intervene in the case
M/s PLR Projects Pvt Ltd v Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and others in which the Supreme Court is considering the issue of unfilled vacancies of High Court judge posts.
In the application, the association highlights that the representation of women in higher judiciary is abysmally low . Till date, only 8 women judges have been appointed in the Supreme Court. There has never been a women Chief Justice of India. Only out of 25 High Courts in the country has a woman Chief Justice (CJ Hima Kohli at Telangana High Court). Only 73 out of 661 High Court judges, which is roughly 11.04% are women. In five High Courts, namely, Manipur, Meghalaya, Patna, Tripura and Uttarak