Chief Justice of India reportedly said on Thursday that it is time for India to have a woman Chief Justice. While heading a three-judge bench for a hearing on ad hoc judges appointment in High Courts, CJI SA Bobde said that the collegium has the interest of women in their minds and claimed that they […]

During a virtual hearing on March 1, many media reports have quoted the CJI asking a government employee, accused of raping the 14-year-old if he will marry the girl. 

Should we let an all-male courtroom make decisions for us and administer our participation in history-making? 

Through all of 2020, a year bookended by protests, women were the face of protests everywhere. Need the competence of women be thus doubted? 

“I was hoping that the review petition will be rejected today,” mother of Nirbhaya, Asha Devi said. “Like we have waited for seven years, we will wait for one more day. Hopefully, the review petition will be rejected tomorrow and they will be hanged soon,” she told.

“The issue is that there is a judgement, there is equally no doubt issue for a larger bench to look into it. The situation today has been there for thousands of years, but no order today,” said the Chief Justice.