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All-women bench
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- Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has constituted an all-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M. Trivedi.
- This bench will hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters.
- This is the third occasion in the history of the apex court that an all-women bench has been constituted.
- The first all-women bench was set up in 2013 when a bench of Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai was constituted.
- The 2nd bench comprises Justices R. Banumathi and Indira Banerjee in 2018.
- In 2020, the Chief Justice of Madras High Court Amreshwar Pratap Sahi constituted its first-ever all-women full Bench (comprising three judges).
- There are three women judges in the supreme court at present including Justice Kohli, B.V. Nagarathna, and Justice Trivedi.
- Justice Nagarathna is also set to become first woman Chief Justice in 2027.
- The apex court currently has a strength of 27 judges including the CJI, against a sanctioned strength of 34.
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