The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a Special Leave Petition filed by the Nilgiris District Bar Association challenging the order of the Madras High Court directing the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to consider an application filed by Women Lawyers Association of Nilgiris seeking recognition.

Senior Advocate V Mohana, appearing for the petitioner, told a bench of CJI BR Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran that a separate bar association exclusively for women lawyers was not necessary in the same district.

She contended that the district is a small one and the present Association has just 250 members to fragment it further and create more Associations for smaller groups. She stressed that this demand is raised only by 4 women lawyers who are disgruntled over some

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