Career
She served as a Judge of Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 29 October 2014. Now, she has been appointed as Chairperson of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity and assumed the charge on 1 December 2014. She was born on 30 October 1949 to criminal lawyer South. G. Samant.
She completed her Bachelor of Arts from the Elphinstone College in 1970 and Bachelor of Laws from the Government Law College, Bombay in 1973.
On 27 September 2013, in a landmark judgement, a three-judge bench consisting of the Chief Justice P Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court of India ruled that the right to register a "none of the above" vote in elections should apply. The Election Commission has said that the judgement will be implemented immediately.
