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AHMEDABAD, July 23: Justice Sunita Agarwal was on Sunday sworn in as the 29th Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
She is the second woman CJ of the Gujarat High Court.
Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar, which was attended by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Speaker of Gujarat Assembly Shankar Chaudhary, and Minister of Law and Justice Rushikesh Patel. The Supreme Court Collegium had, on July 5, proposed the appointment of Justice Agarwal as the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
The apex court had stated she would be the only woman chief justice of an HC as presently there is no woman among the chief justices of the high courts in the country.
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