Women Empowerment has always been one of the burning issues of India and the recent developments in the Apex Institution of Indian Judiciary have certainly come up as a positive ray of hope for women empowerment.
Union Ministry of Law and Justice on Friday cleared the appointment of Justice Indira Banerjee as a judge of the Supreme Court. With this appointment, the top court now has three women judges for the first time in history – Justice R Banumathi, Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Indira Banerjee.
Banerjee, 60, who was the chief justice of the Madras High Court, is only the eighth woman to be elevated to the Supreme Court. The Centre has also cleared the appointment of Odisha High Court Chief Justice Vineet Saran and Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice KM Joseph to the top court.
In other developments the Centre has also appointed Justice Gita Mittal, the acting chief justice of the Delhi High Court, as the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. She is the first woman judge to ever head it.This development came just a day after Sindhu Sharma became the first woman judge of the High Court.