This marks a turning point in the fight for gender equality and women’s leadership within the legal profession. For years, the AAB—the bar association for the Karnataka High Court and Bangalore District Courts—has been dominated by men.
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Limits on reservation?
Last week, the Supreme Court resumed hearing the Maratha Reservation case. Justice Nageswara Rao’s three-judge Bench is deciding whether Maharashtra can extend reservations in education and public employment to the Maratha community. As Sr. Adv. Arvind Datar stressed in the last hearing, the central issue revolves around the 50% ceiling on reservations set by the Supreme Court back in 1992 in Indra Sawhney. Was Maharashtra justified in surpassing the ceiling by over 20%?