Indu Malhotra is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India. She was the second woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court. She was the first woman advocate to be elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India directly from the bar. Indu Malhotra joined the legal profession in 1983 and was enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi. In 1988 she qualified as an advocate-on-record in the Supreme Court. She has also served as the Standing Counsel for the State of Haryana in the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1996. She represented various statutory corporations before the Supreme Court, including the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). In 2007, she was designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court of India. She specializes in the law of arbitration and has appeared in various domestic and international commercial arbitrations. After serving as legal counsel in the Supreme Court for 30 years, Malhotra was unanimously recommended for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. Her appointment was confirmed and ordered by the Government on 26 April 2018. She retired from the Supreme Court on 13 March 2021
