The Punjab & Haryana High Court has designated 76 lawyers as Senior Advocates..The notification issued today reads,"The aforesaid Senior Advocates are being designated subject to the condition that they would conduct 10 'Free Legal Aid' cases pro bono every year.".Those conferred the designation are:.1. Raj Kumar Sharma2. Ashit Malik3. Ranjan Kumar Handa4. Ravi Sodhi5. Anil Malhotra6. Nareshinder Singh Boparai7. Jagdish Manchanda8. Amit Sethi9. Ajneesh Raj Takkar10. Sudeep Mahajan11. Jasdeep Singh Toor12. Sartej Singh Narula13. Manish Jain14. Sukhjinder Singh Behl15. Sukant Gupta16. Inder Pal Singh Doabia17. Vikas Singh18. Adarsh Kumar Jain19. Gurpreet Singh20. Kamal Sehgal21. Yogesh Putney22. Ashu Mohan Punchhi23. Sanjiv Gupta24. Jasdeep Singh Gill25. Deepender Singh26. Mansur Ali27. Sunil Kumar Singh Panwar28. Raj Kumar (R.K. Arora)29. Lokesh Sinhal30. Mandeep Singh Sachdev31. Arvind Moudgil32. Satwant Singh Rangi33. Ashwani Kumar Talwar34. Vikas Chatrath35. Pardeep Singh (Poonia)36. Hemant Bassi37. Pawan Girdhar38. Gautam Dutt39. Amardeep Singh (ADS Sukhija)40. Premjit Singh (Hundal)41. Anurag Goyal42. Sant Pal Singh Sidhu43. Promila Nain44. Vipin Mahajan45. Gurbinder Singh Dhillon @ G.B.S. Dhillon46. Monica Chhibber47. Sarju Puri48. Karambir Singh Nalwa49. Aman Bahri50. Puja Sharma (Puja Chopra)51. Salil Dev Singh Bali52. Sunish Bindlish53. Pankaj54. Parminder Singh Shekhon55. Navdeep Singh56. Rajeev Anand57. Sandeep Goyal58. Ankur Mittal59. Ravinder Singh Randhawa60. Gaurav Mohunta61. Jasdev Singh Mehndiratta62. Pradeep Virk63. Kunal Dawar64. Rahul Sharma65. Dheeraj Jain66. Divya Sharma67. Ravinder Malik @ Ravinder Malik (Ravi)68. Sarjit Bhadu69. Sunil Kumar Nehra70. Chanchal Kumar Singla71. Maninder Singh72. Aman Pal73. Kshitij Sharma74. Puneet Kaur Sekhon75. Preet Inder Singh (Ahluwalia)76. Akshay Kumar Jindal.The list also includes at least five woman advocates:Puneet Kaur SekhonDivya SharmaMonica ChhibberPuja Sharma (Puja Chopra)Promila Nain.Advocate Anil Malhotra has assisted different High Courts as amicus in various matters on family law and child custody disputes, including international parental child abduction cases. Advocate Navdeep Singh (Major) is a leading name in military law. He is an author, a lawyer and former officer in the Territorial Army.Advocate Sartej Singh Narula is President of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association.Advocate Vikas Chatrath is a known name in service law. He also runs and hosts a Youtube channel 'Beyond Law CLC' where legal experts including former judges regularly speak on various topics.Advocate Lokesh Sinhal is a Senior Additional Advocate General with the Haryana government and represents the State before the Supreme Court. Advocates Ankur Mittal and Pawan Girdhar are Additional Advocates General in Chandigarh.Advocate Dheeraj Jain is a senior panel counsel with the Union of India. He is the son of Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Satya Pal Jain. Union government senior panel counsel Arvind Moudgil has represented the Enforcement Directorate (ED) as Special Public Prosecutor (SSP). Advocate Divya Sharma has also been on the senior panel of the Central government since 2023.Advocate Yogesh Putney has been a Senior Standing Counsel for the Income Tax Department for many years. .210 advocates at the High Court had applied for Senior designation in 2024. The process had got delayed for various reasons, including pendency of a case on the Senior designation process before the Supreme Court. After interacting with the eligible candidates, a committee had last month cleared 64 advocates for the designation. All of them were approved by the Full Court. In addition, the Full Court is reported to have voted on and cleared 12 more applicants, taking the total to 76. The High Court now has over 300 Senior Advocates. The last designations were conferred in 2021.
