Gita Mittal as the first woman Chief Justice of Jammu And Kashmir

Srinagar August 11 Justice Gita Mittal took oath as the first woman Chief Justice of Jammu And Kashmir High Court on Saturday morning. The function was controlled by Governor Narinder Nath Vohra at Srinagar.

Mittal had been already selected as the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on April 14, 2017, after the retirement of Chief Justice Gorla Rohini.

Justice Mittal finished her graduation from Campus Law Center in 1981. In 2004, she was designated as the Additional Judge of Delhi High Court and was made changeless in 2008. She had been an individual from the Governing Council of the National Law University and Indian Law Institute, New Delhi since 2013.

Before being designated as the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, she led the court panels on the Delhi High Court's Mediation and Conciliation Center, and additionally the board checking the Implementation of Judicial Guidelines for Dealing with Cases of Sexual Offences and Child Witnesses.

Her judicial pronouncements included judgements on compensation for riot victims; appropriate to safe house of inside uprooted people; right to marriage of a woman member from the Armed Force; the arrangement of a man experiencing 'Disorder of Sexual Differentiation' into the para-military power; standards which would oversee DNA testing in paternity issues without statutory arrangements; the leading of preliminaries in cases including sexual offences and recording of explanations of the casualties and rules for the same; administration of games and sports bodies; issues including end of administration in light of a pregnancy; ideal to specialists in the work compel; exchange stamp prosecution; protection laws; forms of the privilege to security of an open figure; denial of visa - when passable; lawfulness of improvement of court charge; open intrigue, correspondence and business question of a wide nature.

She had spearheaded the Vulnerable Witness Court Project in the trial courts in Delhi, leading to the first such court in India being inaugurated on 16th September 2012 and the second on 11th September 2013