Important Legal Facts Part - II

Legal Concepts Legal Facts

First woman minister	Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First woman Central Minister	Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First woman Speaker of state Legislative Assembly	Shanno Devi
First woman IAS officer	Anna George Malhotra
First woman IPS officer	Kiran Bedi
First British Governor General	Warren Hatings
First Governor-General of free India	Lord Mountbaten
First Viceroy of India	Lord Canning
Last Governor-General of free India	C. Rajagopalachari
First Lok Adalat held at	Kalyan, near Bombay, on experimental basis, in 1978
First Permanent Lok Adalat	Chandigarh, 1998 - Judge : Jus. S.K. Sardana
First Lok Adalat for women	Exclusively for women-related issues, in Delhi, by Delhi Commission for Women & Delhi Legal Services Auhority
First e-courtroom	Delhi High Court, 2009
First Lok Adalat for Tribals	Paderu, Andhra Pradesh
Highest compensation awarded	$470 million by Union Carbide to Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims
Largest no. of states covered by a single High Court	Guwahati - Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh
Frist Mobile Court	Haryana
First Chief Information Commissioner	Wajahat Habibullah
First President of National Commission of Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission	Jus. Balakrishna Eradi
First Chairman, National Human Rights Commission	Ranganath Mishra
First Chief Election Commissioner	Sukumar Sen
Frist Preventive Detention Law	Bengal State Prisoners Regulation III (1784)
First Law Minister of free India	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
First Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha	A.K.Gopalan
First women's court in India	Malda, West Bengal