Justice Gita Mittal was born on 9 December 1958 and is a retired Indian judge.
26 Facts About Gita Mittal
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Gita Mittal is the former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the first woman judge to serve in that capacity.
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Gita Mittal has served as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court while she was serving as a Judge of the Delhi High Court.
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Gita Mittal went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honours from the Lady Shriram College for Women, Delhi, in 1978, and participated actively in athletics, acting as Sports President of the Lady Shri Ram College.
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Gita Mittal studied law at the Campus Law Center in Delhi, graduating with an LL.
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Gita Mittal practiced law in Delhi from 1981 to 2004, prior to her appointment as an Additional Judge in the Delhi High Court.
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Gita Mittal acted as a counsel for the Delhi Development Authority, appearing for them in a case concerning demolitions of illegal structures.
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Gita Mittal was appointed an additional judge to the Delhi High Court on 16 July 2004, and was confirmed as a permanent judge on 20 February 2006.
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On 14 April 2017, Gita Mittal was appointed the Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.
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Justice Gita Mittal's office responded, indicating that the litigant had no pending cases in her court.
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Gita Mittal wrote a number of significant judgments as a judge at the Delhi High Court, many of which concern the conditions of service and recruitment in military and para-military forces in India.
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Gita Mittal has served on the benches of several significant cases concerning political figures.
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Gita Mittal's order was later reversed by a different High Court bench, which compelled him to provide a sample.
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Gita Mittal has contributed to jurisprudence that focuses on constitutional rights.
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On 3 August 2018, Gita Mittal was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Gita Mittal is the first female Chief Justice of that court.
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In 2019, Gita Mittal wrote to the Supreme Court of India calling for the appointment of additional judges to handle the caseload at the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, noting that the Court was functioning at half its judicial capacity with only ten judges serving instead of the allocated seventeen.
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Justice Gita Mittal forwarded seven names for the consideration of the Supreme Court collegium, which appoints judges to the High Courts in India.
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In May 2020, Gita Mittal wrote to the Government of India in her capacity as Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court, calling for the establishment of a bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal in Jammu and Kashmir, to hear cases concerning the service conditions of officers in the Indian Administrative Service.
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Gita Mittal's decision was stayed soon after by the Supreme Court, allowing the ban on SIMI to continue.
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Gita Mittal has served on the governing boards of several educational institutions.
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Gita Mittal has been a member of the Governing Council of the National Law University, Delhi since 2008, and Governing Council of the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi since 2013.
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Gita Mittal was a member of the Delhi University Court from 1999 to 2004, and was nominated to the governing body of Ram Lal Anand College in Delhi from 1997 to 1999.
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Justice Gita Mittal serves on the editorial advisory board of the National Law University Delhi's Journal of Legal Studies.
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In 2008, the Vice President of India, Mohammad Hamid Ansari, awarded Gita Mittal the 'Distinguished Alumna Award' from Lady Shriram College, recognising her contributions to jurisprudence.
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In 2017, Gita Mittal was one of the recipients of the Nari Shakti Puraskar, a civilian honour presented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individuals and organisations contributing to female empowerment.