Earliest era in Codified Laws – Gupta Dynasty Reign (335-445 B.C.)
First Court by East India Company – Court of Judicature set-up in 1672 at Calcutta.
First Federal Court – Stated functioning in December 1937 in Delhi to decide any dispute between Centre and States under the then prevailing the Government of India Act, 1935. The Court functioned for 13 years till the Supreme Court started functioning.
First Chief Justice of Federal Court – Maurice Gwyer
First Chief Justice of Supreme Court – H. J. Kaniya
First President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
First Vice-President of India – Dr. Sarvpalli Radha Krishnan
First Prime Minister of India – Jawahar Lal Nehru
First Deputy Prime Minister of India – Vallabhbhai Patel
First Woman President of India – Pratibha Devi Singh Patil
First Woman Prime Minister of India – Mrs. Indira Gandhi
First Woman Judge of Supreme Court in India – Meera Fatima Beevi, appointed Judge of Supreme Court in 1989. She is the Second Woman in the World after Sandra Day O’Conner of the US to be appointed to this high office.
First Woman Chief Justice of a High Court in India – Leila Seth
First Woman Judge of a High Court in India – Anna Chandi
First Indian to become Judge of a High Court in India – Justice Syed Mehamood (1978)
First Woman Judge in India – Anna Chandi
First Lady Magistrate – Omana Kunjamma
First Woman Advocate in India Camelia Sorabji
First Indian Judge of international Court of Justice – Dr. Nagendra Singh
First High Court/Oldest High Court – Calcutta high Court established in 1862
First Attorney General of India – M.C. Setalvad
First Solicitor General of India – C.K. Daphtary
First Public Prosecutor in India – S. Subramania lyer was appointed as public prosecutor at Madras in 1887.
First Bar-at-Law – J.M. Tagore
First Speaker of Lok Sabha – G.V. Maviankar
First Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha – Meira Kumar
First Woman President of UN General Assembly – Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Woman Governor of a State – Mrs. Sarojini Naidu
First Woman Chief Minister of a State – Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani
First Woman Minister – Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
First Woman Central Minster – Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
First Woman Speaker of State Legislative Assembly – Mrs. Shanno Devi
First Woman IAS Officer – Anna George Malhotra
First Woman IPS Officer – Kiran Bedi.
First British Governor General – Warren Hastings
First Governor General of Free India – Lord Mountbatten
First Viceroy of India – Lord Canning
Last Governor General of free India – C. Rajagopalachari
First Lok Adalat – Held in kalyan, near Bombay on experimental basis in 1978.
First Permanent Lok Adalat – Set-up in Chandigarh in January 1998 with Justice SK Sardana as the Judge
First Permanent Lok Adalat for Tribals – ‘Opened in Paderu in Andhra Pradesh
First Lok Adalat for Women – Exclusively for women issues, matrimonial and other family problems, organized in Delhi by Delhi Commission for Women and Delhi Legal Services Authority
First e-courtroom in India – Delhi high Court in December 2009
Highest Compensation Award – $470 million (Rs. 715 crores) by Union Carbide (USA) the Bhopal Gas Tragedy victims
Largest No. of States covered by a single High Court – Guwahati High Court having jurisdiction over Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh
First Litigation Free Village – Varavoor Panchayat in Thrissur District, Kerala on May, 2000 declared Litigation free Village
First Mobile Court – Haryana
First Chief information Commissioner of India – Wajahat Habibulla
First President of National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission – Justice Balkrishna Eradi
First Chairman of National Human Rights Commission – Rangnath Mishra
First Chief Election Commissioner of India – Sukumar Sen
First preventive Detention Law – Bengal State Prisoners Regulation Ill (introduced in 1784) It provided for detention and deportation of political Finds prisoners and revolutionaries without trial
First Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha – AK. Gopalan
