Sep 05, 2018, 07:30:00 AM | TNN
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All-women bench to sit for second time ever in Supreme Court

An all-women bench in the Supreme Court comprising Justices R Banumathi and Indira Banerjee will hold court on 5th September 2018. This is for the second time ever that an all-women bench will hold proceedings. The first ever all-woman court sat for the first time in SC in 2013 when Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai sat together to hear a case. Among the three sitting women judges currently, Justice Banumathi is the senior-most. She was elevated to the court on August 13, 2014, and was the lone woman judge till the appointment of Justice Indu Malhotra on April 27, 2018. Thereafter, Justice Indira Banerjee was appointed in August this year.

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