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Three Women Judges – India
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- With the elevation of Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee as the Supreme Court judge, the apex court has created a new record in the Indian judicial history.
- For the first time, the top court will have three sitting woman judges namely,
- Justice R Bhanumathi
- Justice Indu Malhotra
- Justice Indira Banerjee
- The President of India has recently appointed Justice Indira Banerjee, Orissa High Court Chief Justice Vineet Saran and Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K.M.Joseph as judges of the Supreme Court.
- Justice Banerjee would become the eighth woman judge in the history of the Supreme Court.
- She succeeds the likes of,
- Fathima Beevi
- Sujata V. Manohar
- Ruma Pal
- Gyan Sudha Misra
- Ranjana Prakash Desai
- At present, the Supreme Court of India has 22 judges.
- Justice Geeta Mittal was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, becoming the first woman judge in the history to head the Jammu and Kashmir HC.
- Sindhu Sharma has acquired the distinction of becoming the first woman judge of the same High Court.
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