Guwahati: The Supreme Court has set up an all-woman judge bench.
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud appointed Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M. Trivedi to the bench of exclusively woman judges.
A group of cases involving case transfers and marriage disputes will be heard by the all-woman judge panel made up of Justices Kohli and Trivedi before 10 bail petitions are heard.
The Supreme Court has only ever created an all-woman judge bench three times in history.
The Supreme Court’s first all-woman bench was made up of Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai in 2013.
The second time was in 2018, when Justices R. Banumathi and Indira Banerjee shared a bench on September 5.
The apex court currently has only three women judges: Justices Kohli, BV Nagarathna, and Trivedi.
Justice Nagarathna is most likely to become the country’s first female chief justice in 2027.