'Rise in number of women judges Nationwide Trend'

  ' chief justice of India CGI DY chandrachur Aan Friday refurbed to the significent increase in the number of women judicial officer an...

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'chief justice of India CGI DY chandrachur Aan Friday refurbed to the significent increase in the number of women judicial officer and set it was a country wide Trend.

At the Outset of the proceeding, the Cji said "we wish to share some happy news. here in the back row in the courtroom,we have 75 judges from the civil judge, junior division from Maharashtra. out of a batch of 75 judges,42 are women and 33 man."

"This is a trend happening across the country. There are more women judges in numbers,"the CGI, who was sitting on a bench with justice JB party wala and Manoj Mishra said. Justice chandrachud said he would meet the judicial officers, including the women judges during the lunch hour.

Some layers including senior advocate Dushyant Deve asked the CGI to take step to raise the number of women judges in the apex court.

"The appointments made today are reflection of the bar 15 years ago," the CGI said.

Recently former supreme court bar association President and senior lawyer Vikas Singh wrote a later to the CGI under scoring the need for allocating one third of the judges positions to women.