Supreme Court decide Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Friday expressed “hope” that “the time for the first woman Chief Justice of India won’t be very far off”. He stated this whereas delivering the twenty sixth Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture on ‘Great Women Of History’ right here.
Speaking on girls management within the twentieth century, he stated “the 1960’s brought a rich haul of women Prime Ministers. For the first time you had (Sirimavo) Bandaranaike in Ceylon, you had Indira (Gandhi) here, you also had Golda Meir in Israel. In 1979, you had Margaret Thatcher, after which I have counted — there is something like a 125 women heads of state, whether president or PM since then”.
“In India, we have had a woman President. But unfortunately, despite the fact that we have had a woman President and we have had a woman Prime Minister, we have never had a woman Chief Justice”.
Justice Nariman stated late Justice Bhandare “was probably the candidate for becoming the first woman Chief Justice of India. Unfortunately, life was cruel to her and cut her remarkable career short” and added, “in any event, I hope that given the present dispensation, the time for the first woman Chief Justice won’t be very far off”.
The feedback come a day after Chief Justice of India S A Bobde throughout a listening to remarked that the “time has come for a woman Chief Justice of India”. The bench headed by him was listening to a plea filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association looking for the courtroom’s intervention to think about extra girls for appointment as judges in excessive courts.