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Women lawyers move SC for more female judges in HCs | India News


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, Tr ....

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