27 Facts About Indu Malhotra

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Indu Malhotra is a retired judge and senior counsel of the Supreme Court of India.

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Indu Malhotra was the second woman to be designated as senior advocate by the Supreme Court.

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Indu Malhotra was the first woman advocate to be elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India directly from the bar.

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Indu Malhotra authored the third edition of The Law and Practice of Arbitration and Conciliation.

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Indu Malhotra, the youngest child of Om Prakash Malhotra, a Supreme Court senior advocate and author, and Satya Malhotra, was born in Bangalore on 14 March 1956.

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Indu Malhotra joined the legal profession in 1983, and was enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi.

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Indu Malhotra was appointed as the standing counsel for the State of Haryana in the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1996.

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Indu Malhotra represented various statutory corporations before the Supreme Court, including the Securities Exchange Board of India, Delhi Development Authority, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Indian Council for Agricultural Research.

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Indu Malhotra became the second woman to be designated by the Supreme Court after a gap of over 30 years.

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Indu Malhotra has been appointed amicus curiae by different benches of the Supreme Court in some matters.

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Indu Malhotra specializes in the law of arbitration, and has appeared in various domestic and international commercial arbitrations.

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In December 2016, Indu Malhotra was made a member of the High Level Committee in the Ministry of Law and Justice to review institutionalization of the arbitration mechanism in India.

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Indu Malhotra's appointment was confirmed and ordered by the government on 26 April 2018; she was the first woman judge to be elevated directly from the bar.

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Some important cases in which Indu Malhotra had appeared are:.

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Indu Malhotra has been empanelled as an arbitrator with several institutional arbitration bodies such as the Indian Council of Arbitration and the Delhi International Arbitration Centre.

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Indu Malhotra recently authored a commentary on the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

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Indu Malhotra's dissenting note on the majority judgement for allowing women's entry in to the famous Sabari mala temple received wide attention.

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Indu Malhotra added that "notions of rationality cannot be invoked in matters of religion by courts".

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Indu Malhotra was part of the two-judge panel that awarded the shebaitship of Padmanabhaswamy Temple to the Travancore Royal family in 2020.

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Indu Malhotra has been a member of various committees constituted by the Supreme Court from time to time, including the Vishakha Committee.

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Indu Malhotra was nominated as a member of the editorial committee for publication of the official journal of the National Legal Services Authority, "Nyaya Deep", between 2004 and 2013.

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Indu Malhotra was nominated as a member of the Indo-British Legal Forum held in 2003, and again in 2008.

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Indu Malhotra represented India in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, held by the Commonwealth Secretariat in May 1998 at Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Indu Malhotra has been nominated by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to the Central Council and Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949.

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Indu Malhotra is a trustee of the SaveLIFE Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation which aims to prevent traffic accidents, and to formulate a system for providing immediate post-accident response to save the life of victims of traffic accidents.

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Indu Malhotra has authored a Commentary on the Law and Practice of Arbitration in India, which was released on 7 April 2014 by the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India.

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Indu Malhotra has published articles in various journals and magazines.