Published On: January 05, 2021 at 17:30 IST
Judge of Supreme Court of India
NAME – Indira Banerjee
PROFESSION- Judge
BORN – 24/09/1957
PLACE OF BIRTH – Kolkata
FATHER’S NAME – N/A
MOTHER’S NAME – N/A
SPOUSE – N/A
SIBLINGS – N/A
CHILDREN – N/A
EDUCATION – She did her school from Loreto House in Kolkata.
B.A. from Presidency College, Kolkata.
L.L.B. from Department of Law at the University of Calcutta.
AWARDS – No
SPECIALISATION- No
COMMITTEE/ PANEL HEADED-
BACKGROUND – Indira Banerjee is a Judge of the Supreme Court of India and the 8th female Judge in history of Supreme Court of India. She is former Chief Justice of Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the position in India. before being elevated as a Judge of Supreme Court of India.
She was born on 24 September 1957. She did her schooling at the Loreto House in Kolkata. She pursued her higher education at the Presidency College, Kolkata and Department of Law, University of Calcutta. [7] She was enrolled as an advocate on 5 July 1985 and practised before the Calcutta High Court.
CAREER TIMELINE/ POSITIONS HELD –
1957: Indira Banerjee was born on 24 September 1957.
1985: She was enrolled as an advocate on 5 July 1985 and practised before the Calcutta High Court.
2017: She was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and assumed charge on 5 April 2017.
2018: She was elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 7 August 2018.
LANDMARK JUDGEMMENTS-
- Rajendra Diwan Vs Pradeep Kumar Ranibala and Ors. Civil Appeal No. 3613 Of 2016
The unanimous judgment in Rajendra Diwan v Pradeep Kumar Ranibala (2019) authored by Justice Indira Banerjee holds that the Constitution gives only the union Parliament the power to make laws on the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and a state law, such as the CRCA, could not allow for an appeal from the Rent Control Tribunal, set up under the law, to the Supreme Court.
- State of Haryana Vs Angoori Devi and Ors. Criminal Appeal No.1801 Of 2013
This appeal filed by the State of Haryana is against a judgment and order dated 3.5.2012 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh allowing the appeal filed by the respondents, reversing the judgment of conviction passed by the learned Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by SATISH KUMAR YADAV.
- Dattatraya Vs The State of Maharashtra Criminal Appeal Nos. 1110-1111 Of 2015
On 27th January 1977, in the case of Dattatraya Govind Mahajan & Ors. v. State Of Maharashtra & Anr the review petition was filed in the Supreme Court against the decision of Bombay High Court in Vithalrao’s case.
- Sushila Agarwal and Ors. Vs State (NCT of Delhi) and Ors. Special Leave Petition (Criminal) Nos. 72817282 / 2017
The case Sushila Aggarwal v. State of NCT of Delhi (2020) was taken up in the light of contradictory interpretations of the different Benches of varying strength. The constitutional bench overruled the judgments binding Anticipatory Bail to a fixed time period.
CONTROVERSIES/CASES – No
REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS- No
