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The Court noted that the outgoing General Secretary and President expressed their reservation regarding reservation of posts for women higher than Treasurer, but they could not put forth any such reasoning for such an assertion.
Two women candidates securing the 6th and 7th positions in Bar Council elections have urged reconsideration of the co-option mechanism, stressing natural justice, electoral representation and meaningful participation of women advocates.
Supreme Court clarified that reservation is only to guarantee a minimum and women members of the SCBA, subject to their eligibility, be entitled to contest the election for all the posts in the Executive Committee.
Justice Sonia Giridhar Gokani, who recently took oath as the Gujarat High Court’s 28th and First Woman Chief Justice, retired on 25-02-2023 after a shortest tenure of any Chief Justice in the history of Gujarat High Court