For the first time in its 88-year history, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana has named a woman for elevation to the Bench.
With a history of her own for breaking records, Daya Chaudhary was the first and only woman to be the president of the High Court Bar Association and the first woman to be appointed assistant solicitor general of India at the high court.
Chaudhary took the oath as an additional judge of the high court in the last week of November.
When faced with the question of women judges a few years ago, the former high court chief justice, BK Roy, told the media that the reason no women advocates had ever been recommended for the bench was because there was no “judge material” among them, ExpressIndia.com reported.
Chaudhary publicly challenged the chief justice’s views by posing him a question in the media: if women advocates were good enough to contest and win cases, be appointed as government lawyers, clear difficult entrance exams to qualify as members of the subordinate judiciary, why couldn’t they make it as judges of the high court?
