BREAKING| Supreme Court Designates 39 Lawyers As Senior Advocates

The Supreme Court on Wednesday designated 39 advocates as senior advocates.

They are :

1. Mr. Abhimanyu Bhandari, Advocate

2. Dr. (Ms.) Anindita Pujari, Advocate-on-Record

3. Mr. Aniruddha Anant Joshi, Advocate

4. Ms. Aparna Bhat T G, Advocate-on-Record

5. Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, Advocate-on-Record

6. Mr. B. Balaji, Advocate-on-Record

7. Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, Advocate

8. Mr. Davinder Pal Singh, Advocate

9. Mr. Gaurav Sharma, Advocate-on-Record

10. Ms. Indra Sawhney, Advocate-on-Record

11. Ms. Kavita Jha, Advocate-on-Record

12. Ms. Kawaljit Kochar, Advocate

13. Mr. Mahesh Chandra Dhingra, Advocate-on-Record

14. Mr. Manish Goswami, Advocate

15. Ms. Manisha T. Karia, Advocate-on-Record

16. Md. Rafat Shamshad [M.R. Shamshad], Advocate-on-Record

17. Dr. (Ms.) Monika Gusain, Advocate-on-Record

18. Mr. Nachiketa Sudhakar Joshi, Advocate-on-Record

19. Mr. Nalin Kohli, Advocate

20. Mr. Ngangom Junior, Advocate

21. Mr. Parameshwar K., Advocate-on-Record

22. Mr. Prasenjit Keswani, Advocate

23. Mr. Puneet Jain, Advocate

24. Dr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Advocate-on-Record

25. Mr. R. Nedumaran, Advocate-on-Record

26. Mr. Rahul Kaushik, Advocate-on-Record

27. Mr. Rishi Malhotra, Advocate-on-Record

28. Mr. Romy Chacko, Advocate-on-Record

29. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, Advocate-on-Record

30. Mr. Rudreshwar Singh, Advocate

31. Mr. Seshadri Sekhar Ray (S.S. Ray), Advocate

32. Mr. Shadan Farasat, Advocate-on-Record

33. Mr. Shanthkumar V. Mahale, Advocate

34. Mr. Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Advocate

35. Ms. Shashi Kiran, Advocate-on-Record

36. Mr. Shekara Gowda (Shekhar G Devasa), Advocate-on-Record

37. Mr. Uday Bhaskar Dube, Advocate-on-Record

38. Mr. Vishnu Mehra, Advocate

39. Mr. Yashraj Singh Deora, Advocate-on-Record

On January 19, the Supreme Court conferred senior designations on 56 advocates. This was followed by 5 senior designations conferred in March.

Senior designations took place in the Supreme Court this year after a gap of five years. Further, this year is also the first time that senior designations have been decided based on the modified guidelines framed as per the judgment passed by the Supreme Court last year in its 2017 judgment (Indira Jaising v. Supreme Court of India).

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