Talk:Gita Mittal

Deleted the following content as it was not sourced or cited, and did not follow the style guidelines for biographies. I've found and cited parts of this content and rewritten it into the bio page. Parts of it also appear to be taken verbatim from the Delhi High Court's biography page of the subject, without attribution. Additional sources are welcome. R1988 (talk) 21:36, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Born on 9 December 1958 Justice Gita Mittal was a top lawyer in the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India. She was called to Bench of the Delhi High Court as an Additional Judge on 16 July 2004. She is first ever female Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.

She has written extensively on ‘Access to Justice’; protection of human rights; impact of incarceration on women; corporate social responsibility; death penalty; impact of religion, culture, tradition on judging; corporate laws; procedure and intellectual property litigation and environmental laws and issues.

Justice Gita Mittal was invited to the Vatican City on an invitation by the Pope Francis to speak at a summit of Judges and Prosecutors on Human Trafficking.

The report of the Justice JS Verma Committee, constituted in the aftermath of the 2012 Delhi gang rape case to suggest amendments on Criminal Law has extensively drawn from the pronouncement in Virender v. State authored by Justice Gita Mittal.

On Judicial side, Justice Gita Mittal is reputed for taking suo moto cognizance of matters of public interest. During her tenure in Delhi High Court, she has initiated several suo moto public interest cases on safety of women, juvenile justice, drug menace, public order, civic amenities and even individual cases of extreme injustice.

Justice Gita Mittal received the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2008 from the Vice President of India, awarded by the Lady Shriram College for Women.

In 2018, President Ram Nath Kovind awarded Justice Gita Mittal with the Nari Shakti Puruskar, India's highest civilian honour for women.

As Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir, she is known to have introduced several administrative reforms. Acting on the Judicial Side, she has formed a task force on the cleaning of the Dal Lake, Srinagar, headed by India's Metro Man E. Sreedharan, Environmentalist M.C. Mehta and Bureaucrat Nivedita P. Haran.

In March, 2019 she ordered the Writ Petitions relating to separatist leader Yasin Malik to be shifted to the Jammu Wing of the Jammu & Kashmir High Court, on an application made by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

She inaugurated the first Vulnerable Witness Deposition Complex of Jammu & Kashmir in Srinagar, an innovation which she has designed and has received international recognition for.

Section on appointment of additional judges

The section on appointment of additional judges has been flagged for importance. I'd welcome feedback on improving the section. Justice Mittal requested and recommended the appointment of new judges, which was politically significant and controversial, and has been widely reported. The section is adequately sourced to news articles about this. R1988 (talk) 09:27, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

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