Supreme Court judge, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Friday expressed hope that India would soon get its first woman Chief Justice. .Justice Nariman made the comment while speaking on "Great Women of History" as part of the 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.."I hope, given the present dispensation, the time for the first woman Chief Justice won’t be very far off," he said. .Justice RF Nariman speaks on "Great Women of History:" LIVE UPDATES from 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.The occasion also saw the sitting Supreme Court Judge, who is part of the Supreme Court Collegium, comment that Justice Bhandare could have been India's first Supreme Court Chief Justice had it not been for her untimely death. ."We see the picture of (Justice) Sunanda today. She 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.".He noted that from the 1960s, a rich haul of women came to power as heads of State, including Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Ceylon) Golda Meir (Israel) and Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)..India also recently had a woman President, he noted. However, the country is yet to see its first woman Chief Justice, he remarked. "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 (of India)," Justice Nariman said while concluding with the hope that it will change in the near future. .Read live thread on the lecture here.
Supreme Court judge, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman on Friday expressed hope that India would soon get its first woman Chief Justice. .Justice Nariman made the comment while speaking on "Great Women of History" as part of the 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.."I hope, given the present dispensation, the time for the first woman Chief Justice won’t be very far off," he said. .Justice RF Nariman speaks on "Great Women of History:" LIVE UPDATES from 26th Justice Sunanda Bhandare Memorial Lecture.The occasion also saw the sitting Supreme Court Judge, who is part of the Supreme Court Collegium, comment that Justice Bhandare could have been India's first Supreme Court Chief Justice had it not been for her untimely death. ."We see the picture of (Justice) Sunanda today. She 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.".He noted that from the 1960s, a rich haul of women came to power as heads of State, including Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (Ceylon) Golda Meir (Israel) and Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)..India also recently had a woman President, he noted. However, the country is yet to see its first woman Chief Justice, he remarked. "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 (of India)," Justice Nariman said while concluding with the hope that it will change in the near future. .Read live thread on the lecture here.
