Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed Rajya Sabha that against the sanctioned strength of 1108 Judges 775 Judges are working out of which 106 are women Judges and 669 are male Judges.
He replied to an Unstarred Question that the total strength of women judges in the High Courts of the country and its proportion to male judges and percentage of total strength.
He mentioned that the percentage of women Judges is 9.5% of the total strength and 13.6% of the working strength of High Court Judges. At present no women Chief Justice is working in any High Court of the country.
He further pointed out that as per the data for 15 States provided by the Bar Council of India there are 284507 women lawyers enrolled out of the total 1542855 advocates, accounting for 15.31%.
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