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With swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, Supreme Court now has three sitting women judges for first time in its history

Press Trust of India • August 7, 2018, 15:50:55 IST
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With the swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, the Supreme Court will for the first time in its history have three sitting women judges. Justice Banerjee is the eighth woman judge in the Supreme Court since Independence.

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With swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, Supreme Court now has three sitting women judges for first time in its history

New Delhi: With the swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, the Supreme Court will for the first time in its history have three sitting women judges. Justice Banerjee is the eighth woman judge in the Supreme Court since Independence. She became a judge of the Calcutta High Court on 5 February, 2002 and was made the chief justice of the Madras High Court on 5 April, 2017. She will retire from the apex court on 23 September, 2022. [caption id=“attachment_4911111” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![File image of Supreme Court. AP](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Supreme-Court-AP-3802.jpg) File image of Supreme Court. AP[/caption] Before her, senior advocate Indu Malhotra was appointed as the seventh woman judge in the apex court. Malhotra was the first senior woman advocate to be directly appointed as the judge of the Supreme Court. Among the three sitting women judges, Justice R Banumathi is the senior most and was elevated to the apex court on 13 August, 2014. The first woman judge of the apex court was Justice Fathima Beevi who was appointed in 1989, that is 39 years after the Supreme Court was set up in 1950. She was elevated to the apex court after her retirement as a judge of the Kerala High Court. The second was Justice Sujata V Manohar, who started her career as a judge of the Bombay High Court and rose to become the chief justice of Kerala High Court. She was elevated to the apex court where she remained from 8 November, 1994 till 27 August, 1999. Justice Ruma Pal followed Justice Manohar after a gap of almost five months and became the longest-serving woman judge, from 28 January, 2000 to 2 June, 2006. After her retirement, it took four years to appoint the next woman judge. Justice Gyan Sudha Misra was elevated to the Supreme Court from the Jharkhand High Court where she was the chief justice. Her tenure in the apex court was from 30 April, 2010 to 27 April, 2014. During her stint, she was joined by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, who served in the apex court between 13 September, 2011 and 29 October, 2014. These two judges created a history by holding court together as an all-women bench for a day in 2013. After the retirement of Justice Desai on 29 October, 2014, Justice Banumathi was the lone woman judge in the apex court till the appointment of Justice Malhotra on 27 April, this year. Justice Banumathi will retire on 19 July, 2020. This is the for the first time the apex court is having three women judges.

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