All Women Bench of Supreme Court

On 1^st December, 2022, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has constituted an all-women bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli and Bela M. Trivedi to hear transfer petitions involving matrimonial disputes and bail matters. It is only the third time in its history.

• The first time the Supreme Court had an all-woman bench was in 2013, when Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai sat together.
• The second occasion came in 2018, when Justices R Banumathi and Indira Banerjee shared a bench.

Current Status of Women's Share in Indian Judiciary: In high courts, the percentage of women judges is a ....