Supreme Court witnesses all-woman bench, the third time ever

December 1 of 2022 became historic for the Indian judiciary when the Supreme Court witnessed an all-woman bench. This was the third such occasion in the country.

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The bench, which sat at Court number 11 at 10:30 am, took up 32 matters, including 10 transfer petitions related to matrimonial disputes and 10 bail matters.

Earlier, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud had set up the bench comprising Justices Hima Kohli (right) and Bela M Trivedi (far right).

History was "accidentally" created in 2013, as Justice Aftab Alam, the presiding judge of a three-judge apex court bench, could not attend the proceedings, making it an all-woman bench of Justices Gyan Sudha Misra and Ranjana Prakash Desai.