The President on Wednesday appointed new Chief Justices to four High Courts across the country.
One of them, Allahabad High Court judge, Justice Sunita Agarwal, as the new Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, would be the only woman Chief Justice of a High Court.
The Supreme Court Collegium, while recommending Justice Agarwal’s name on July 5, had observed that there is no woman among the Chief Justices of the High Courts. The Collegium had felt that Justice Agarwal would give a fillip to gender diversity in the higher judiciary.
