Hope time for 1st lady CJI gained’t be very a long way off: Justice Nariman

Ideally suited Court docket pass judgement on Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Friday expressed “hope” that “the time for the primary lady Leader Justice of India gained’t be very a long way off”. He mentioned this whilst turning in the 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture on ‘Nice Ladies Of Historical past’ right here.

Talking on ladies management within the 20th century, he mentioned “the 1960’s introduced a wealthy haul of girls High Ministers. For the primary time you had (Sirimavo) Bandaranaike in Ceylon, you had Indira (Gandhi) right here, you additionally had Golda Meir in Israel. In 1979, you had Margaret Thatcher, and then I’ve counted — there’s something like a 125 ladies heads of state, whether or not president or PM since then”.

“In India, we have now had a girl President. However sadly, even supposing we have now had a girl President and we have now had a girl High Minister, we have now by no means had a girl Leader Justice”.

Justice Nariman mentioned overdue Justice Bhandare “used to be almost definitely the candidate for turning into the primary lady Leader Justice of India. Sadly, lifestyles used to be merciless to her and minimize her outstanding profession brief” and added, “in any tournament, I’m hoping that given the prevailing dispensation, the time for the primary lady Leader Justice gained’t be very a long way off”.

The feedback come an afternoon after Leader Justice of India S A Bobde right through a listening to remarked that the “time has come for a lady Leader Justice of India”. The bench headed via him used to be listening to a plea filed via the Ideally suited Court docket Ladies Legal professionals Affiliation in quest of the court docket’s intervention to believe extra ladies for appointment as judges in top courts.