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Upping women trial court judges numbers more important than selecting a few to SC | India News


A 71-year-old Supreme Court on Saturday bid farewell to its seventh woman Judge, Justice Indu Malhotra. Justice Indira Banerjee is the eighth, who will retire in September next year.
Like the first woman SC Judge M Fathima Beevi, Malhotra had a less than three year tenure. While Malhotra was the first woman advocate to become a SC Judge, Beevi was recalled from retirement to become a SC judge in October 1989. She retired from Kerala HC as a Judge in April 1989.
Five years after retiring as the first Muslim woman SC Judge, Beevi was appointed Governor of Tamil Nadu in January 1997. But she had to resign in 2001 when her controversial decision to appoint J Jayalalithaa as chief minister, despite her conviction and consequent disqualification to contest elections, was struck down by the SC. ....

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