Supreme Court To Have All-Woman Bench Today With Justices Hima Kohli & Bela Trivedi

The Supreme Court will have an all-woman bench today, with Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M Trivedi. This is possibly the second time when a bench comprising only women judges has been set up.

The bench will sit at Court number 11 at 10.30 AM.

Though in 2013, there was an instance where Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra and Justice Ranjana Prasad Desai sat together, it was an 'accidental' constitution occasioned by the absence of the presiding judge Justice Aftab Alam. The first time when a bench comprising only women judges actually held hearing was in 2018, when a bench comprising Justice R Banumathi and Justice Indira Banerjee held sitting.

Out of the current strength of 27 judges, the Supreme Court has only three women judges: Justices Hima Kohli, B V Nagarathna, and Bela Trivedi, who took oath on the same day on August 31, 2021. The highest number of women judges the Supreme Court has ever had at a particular point of time is four in 2021, when Justices Indira Banerjee was also there apart from the above mentioned three judges. Justice Banerjee demitted office in October this year.