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Indu Malhotra First Woman Lawyer To Be Directly Promoted As Supreme Court Judge

Published on January 12, 2018
Supreme Court collegium recommended senior advocate Indu Malhotra as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.

 Indu Malhotra First Woman Lawyer To Be Directly Promoted As Supreme Court Judge

  • In a first of its kind incident in the history of Indian judiciary.
  • She will be the seventh women judge to be on the apex court since independence.
  • In 1989, Justice M Fathima Beevi became the first woman to be appointed as a judge of the apex court. Justice Sujata V Manohar, Justice Ruma Pal, Justice Gyan Sudha Misra and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai were appointed to the Supreme Court

About Indu


  • She is a senior counsel practising in the Supreme Court for the past 30 years. 
  • She was the second woman to be designated senior advocate by the apex court in 2007.
  • In 1988, she qualified as an Advocate-on-Record in the Supreme Court and secured the first position in the examination, for which she was awarded the Mukesh Goswami Memorial Prize on Law Day.
  • She has also served as a member of the Centre-appointed High-Level Committee (HLC) in the Ministry of Law and Justice to review ‘Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India’.
  • She has authored the third edition of a commentary ‘The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation, 2014’ which was recently released in April 2014.
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