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Time has come for a woman Chief Justice of India: CJI SA Bobde
Time has come for a woman Chief Justice of India: CJI SA Bobde
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Thursday said the time has come for a woman to be appointed the Chief Justice of India.
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Chief Justice of India SA Bobde (File photo: PTI)
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Thursday said the time had come when a woman should be the Chief Justice of India. He also said there was no need for a change of attitude of the Collegium to ensure greater representation of women in the judiciary.
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Time has come for a woman Chief Justice of India: CJI Bobde
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Thursday said the time had come when a woman should be the Chief Justice of India. He also said there was no need for a change of attitude of the Collegium to ensure greater representation of women in the judiciary.
A special bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Surya Kant said, “Why higher judiciary. We think the time has come when a woman should be Chief Justice of India”.
The bench said, “We have the interest of women in mind. There is no attitudinal change in it. Hopefully, they (women) will be appointed”.
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It took nearly two years and more than 50 hearings for a district court in Delhi to acquit journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation case filed by former Union Minister MJ Akbar.
The trigger for the defamation case came amidst the #MeToo campaign in 2018 where scores of women took to social media to speak up about incidents of sexual harassment. Several who had previously been inhibited by fear made allegations about prominent men in the field of journalism, advertising, arts, music and sports.
On Twitter, Ramani accused Akbar of harassment in an incident that had taken place in a hotel room in 1993, when she was a young reporter and he was an established newspaper editor. After that, 20 women accused Akbar of grave sexual misconduct during his years as editor.
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The Special Marriage Act, 1954, is seen as a progressive law enacted to help inter-faith couples
The Special Marriage Act (SMA), 1954 is seen as a progressive law enacted to help inter-faith couples. But with States such as Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh framing laws that target inter-faith marriage, the procedural requirements of the SMA such as the need to give prior notice, and allowance for ‘objections’ seem to be undermining its original intent by opening the doors to violent moral policing by vigilante groups.
Can the SMA come to the rescue of inter-faith couples, who, in addition to the old challenge of parental opposition, today also have to contend with the bogey of ‘love jihad’? Here we discuss the issue.