#SupremeCourt hears the issue of reservation for women in the upcoming Bar Council elections across the states **
Sr Adv Shobha Gupta for the petitioner
Bench is informed that 4 State Councils have started the election process **
Gupta: except for Maharashtra...I can say they have completely supported it **
Counsel for the BCI submits the affidavit **
Gupta : para 10, there is no co-option
CJI: there are some women lawyers, they may not be able to contest the elections, but because of the image in the bar and their status, they may be called to be part of the council **
CJI: we will ask them to put a proposal before us and scrutinise it with assistance from all of you **
CJI: there should not be any compromise of the issue that there be 30% reservation for women **
Sr Adv Meen…
#SupremeCourt hears the issue of reservation for women in the upcoming Bar Council elections across the states **
Sr Adv Shobha Gupta for the petitioner
Bench is informed that 4 State Councils have started the election process **
Gupta: except for Maharashtra...I can say they have completely supported it **
Counsel for the BCI submits the affidavit **
Gupta : para 10, there is no co-option
CJI: there are some women lawyers, they may not be able to contest the elections, but because of the image in the bar and their status, they may be called to be part of the council **
CJI: we will ask them to put a proposal before us and scrutinise it with assistance from all of you **
CJI: there should not be any compromise of the issue that there be 30% reservation for women **
Sr Adv Meenakshi : some states have no representations....mylords somehwere down will have to mould...in Maharashtra Bar Council, they have passed a resolution **
Arora: 37% women must have registered, but in actual practise the count is low
CJI: those who are sitting at home, not really the face of the profession ...the reservation should be for those actually practising **
Arora flags the issue of excessive fees for enrollment **
Counsel for BCI: 30% you have to go to the parliament, if you oppose this co-option **
Sr Adv PV Dinesh : we are trying to democratise the system, there should be regional representation also that should happen **
CJI : we find that elections in 4 bar councils have been notified, it may not be prudent to ear mark the seats for women wherever the elections have started **
CJI: the elections in Bihar and Chhattisgarh are also heldm so they may be excluded, in the remaining bar councils, 30% seats shall be reserved for the women, 20% be filled by election, and 10% by co-option **
Dinesh: co-option will destroy the democracy, it is very powerful **
CJI: the women advs who will be co-opted, a proposal regarding co-option will be placed before this court **
CJI; wherever the women members of the bar are (inaudible) 20% seats ...the process of co-option qua those bar councils also will be undertaken to ensure that finally, the women members get 30% representation **
Dinesh: there should be some guidelines for co-option **
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