Chief Justice NV Ramana on Sunday called for 50 percent reservation for women in the judiciary and supported the demand for similar reservation in law colleges across the country. Addressing women advocates of the Supreme Court the Chief Justice said, “it is your right you are entitled to demand that (reservation in the judiciary and law colleges). “We need 50 percent reservation for women in judiciary.
It is an issue of thousands of years of oppression. In lower levels of the judiciary less than 30 percent of judges are women in High Courts it is 11.5 percent in Supreme Court only 11-12 per cent are women,” he said. Of 1.7 million advocates in the country only 15 per cent are women. Only two percent elected representatives in state bar councils are women. “I raised the issue of why the Bar Council of the India National Committee does not have even a single woman representative” he Stated.
