{"id":35849,"date":"2018-01-11T18:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=35849"},"modified":"2018-01-11T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:17:44","slug":"indu-malhotra-to-be-first-woman-to-be-promoted-from-bar-to-sc-judgeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/indu-malhotra-to-be-first-woman-to-be-promoted-from-bar-to-sc-judgeship\/","title":{"rendered":"Indu Malhotra to be first woman to be promoted from Bar to SC judgeship"},"content":{"rendered":"
Supreme Court Collegium also recommends elevation of Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph as judge of the apex court<\/em><\/p>\n In a first, the Supreme Court Collegium has decided to elevate a woman lawyer \u2013 Indu Malhotra \u2013 straight from the Bar Council to be made a judge of the apex court.<\/p>\n <\/a>The Collegium, comprising senior-most judges of the Supreme Court \u2013 Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justices Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph \u2013 has, according to media reports, recommended unanimously the appointment of Malhotra and Uttarakhand Chief Justice KM Joseph as judges of the apex court.<\/p>\n It is pertinent to note that in the first 39 years of its existence, the Supreme Court\u2019s judiciary had no woman member. The glass ceiling was broken in 1989 with the appointment of Justice Fathima Beevi as a judge of the Supreme Court. Justice Beevi was not just the first woman judge of the Supreme Court but also the first Muslim woman to have made it to India\u2019s higher judiciary. The other women judges of the Supreme Court have been Justice Sujatha Manohar, \u00a0Justice Ruma Pal, Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Ranjana Desai.<\/p>\n