Judge Rao was appointed as an Interim Civil Court Judge in January 2019 and Judge Ambedkar was appointed as an Interim Civil Court judge in May 2018.

Sindhu Sharma became the first woman to be appointed as the judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court after the announcement was made by the Centre on Friday. Who is she? Sharma did her LL.B from Panjab University, Chandigarh. She enrolled with the Bar in 1996, and has since then practiced in the district courts and […]

Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Indira Banerjee, has been appointed as a Supreme Court judge. With this appointment, Banerjee becomes the eighth woman judge of the apex court. Before her, Fathima Beevi, Sujata V. Manohar, Ruma Pal, Gyan Sudha Misra, Ranjana Prakash Desai, R. Banumathi and Indu Malhotra were the women who were appointed as Supreme […]

Justice Leila Seth passed away on Friday night, May 5. The first woman judge of the Delhi High Court, she was also the first woman to become Chief Justice of a State High Court on August 5, 1991. She was part of the three-member Justice JS Verma committee that was set up after the Nirbhaya incident […]

Twenty three years after Sushmita Sen won the Miss Universe pagaent in Manila, she will be on the judge’s panel to select the next Miss Universe.