19 Jan 2024 9:42 AM GMT
The Supreme Court on Friday (January 19) designated 56 advocates as senior advocates. Eleven out of them are women.
It is after 5 years that the Supreme Court is conferring senior designations. Last time, in March 2019, 37 advocates, including 6 women, were conferred with senior designations. This 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 the Indira Jaising case.
282 advocates had applied for senior designation out of which 200 lawyers were shortlisted for the interview.
A committee headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud interviewed the advocates.
The following advocates were conferred with senior designations after a Full Court meeting.
1. Gaurav Agrawal, Advocate-on-Record
2. Shobha Gupta, Advocate-on-Record
3. Sitesh Mukherjee, Advocate
4. Amit Anand Tiwari, Advocate-on-Record
5. Saket Singh, Advocate
6. Amar Pradeepbhai Dave (Amar Pradeep Dave), Advocate
7. Devashish Bharuka, Advocate-on-Record
8. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Advocate-on-Record
9. Dr. Aman Mohit Hingorani, Advocate-on-Record
10. Abhinav Mukerji, Advocate-on-Record
11. Saurabh Mishra, Advocate-on-Record
12. Nikhil Goel, Advocate-on-Record
13. Sunil Fernandes, Advocate-on-Record
14. Sujit Kumar Ghosh, Advocate
15. Shikhil Shiv Madhu Suri, Advocate
16. Liz Mathew (Anthraper), Advocate-on-Record
17. Sanjay Upadhyay, Advocate
18. Sudhanshu Shashikumar Choudhari, Advocate-on-Record
19. Karuna Nundy, Advocate
20. Pratap Venugopal, Advocate-on-Record
21. Gagan Gupta, Advocate-on-Record
22. Raghenth B. (Raghenth Basant), Advocate
23. Tapesh Kumar Singh, Advocate-on-Record
24. Nisha Bagchi, Advocate
25. Rauf Rahim, Advocate-on-Record
26. P.B. Suresh, Advocate-on-Record
27. Uttara Babbar, Advocate-on-Record
28. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., Advocate-on-Record
29. Sridhar Potaraju, Advocate-on-Record
30. Haripriya Padmanabhan, Advocate
31. Dr. K.B. Sounder Rajan, Advocate-on-Record
32. G. Saikumar, Advocate
33. Anand Sanjay M. Nuli, Advocate
34. Senthil Jagadeesan (Senthil J.), Advocate-on-Record
35. Deeptendra Narayan Ray, Advocate
36. Mohd. Shoeb Alam, Advocate-on-Record
37. Pijush Kanti Roy, Advocate
38. Archana Pathak Dave, Advocate-on-Record
39. N.S. Nappinai, Advocate
40. Anil Kaushik, Advocate
41. S. Janani, Advocate-on-Record
42. Naresh Kaushik, Advocate
43. Ananda Padmanabhan, Advocate
44. Dr. Jose Porathur, Advocate
45. Uday Gupta, Advocate
46. Shridhar Yeshwant Chitale, Advocate
47. Anant Vijay Palli, Advocate
48. Rupesh Kumar, Advocate-on-Record
49. Sanjay Vasantrao Kharde, Advocate
50. V. Prabhakar, Advocate
51. Abhijeet Sinha, Advocate
52. Arvind Kumar Sharma, Advocate
53. Shailesh Madiyal, Advocate-on-Record
54. Shirin Khajuria, Advocate-on-Record
55. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, Advocate-on-Record
56. Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad, Advocate-on-Record
The list can be found here.