Supreme Court designates 39 lawyers as Senior Advocates

Srinagar, Aug 14: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday designated 39 lawyers as Senior Advocates out of which 10 are women lawyers, Bar & Bench reported.

The decision was ratified at a full court meeting held earlier today.

The lawyers who have been conferred the gown include: Abhimanyu Bhandari, Advocate; Dr. Anindita Pujari, Advocate-on-Record; Aniruddha Anant Joshi, Advocate; Aparna Bhat TG, Advocate-on-Record; Ashok Panigrahi, Advocate-on-Record; Davinder Pal Singh, Advocate; B Balaji, Advocate-on-Record; Bansuri Swaraj, Advocate; Gaurav Sharma, Advocate-on-Record; Indra Sawhney, Advocate-on-Record; Kavita Jha, Advocate-on-Record; Kawaljit Kochar, Advocate; Mahesh Chandra Dhingra, Advocate-on-Record; Manish Goswami, Advocate; Manisha T Karia, Advocate-on-Record; Md. Rafat Shamshad [MR Shamshad], Advocate-on-Record; Dr. Monika Gusain, Advocate-on-Record; Nachiketa Sudhakar Joshi, Advocate-on-Record; Nalin Kohli, Advocate; Ngangom Junior, Advocate; Parameshwar K, Advocate-on-Record; Prasenjit Keswani, Advocate; Puneet Jain, Advocate; Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Advocate-on-Record; R Nedumaran, Advocate-on-Record; Rahul Kaushik, Advocate-on-Record; Rishi Malhotra, Advocate-on-Record; Romy Chacko, Advocate-on-Record; Ruchi Kohli, Advocate-on-Record; Rudreshwar Singh, Advocate; Seshadri Sekhar Ray (SS Ray), Advocate; Shadan Farasat, Advocate-on-Record; Shanthkumar V Mahale, Advocate; Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Advocate; Shashi Kiran, Advocate-on-Record; Shekara Gowda (Shekhar G Devasa), Advocate-on-Record; Uday Bhaskar Dube, Advocate-on-Record; Vishnu Mehra, Advocate; and Yashraj Singh Deora, Advocate-on-Record.

138 lawyers, 68 of whom are Advocates-On-Record (AoRs), had applied for the senior gown.

According to Bar & Bench, 71 had been shortlisted for interviews.

The Court had in January this year designated 56 lawyers as Senior Advocates, including 11 women.

The earlier round of senior designations before that was done in December 2021, when 18 lawyers were conferred the gown.