Punjab and Haryana High Court designates 76 new senior advocates

Among the newly designated senior advocates are prominent legal figures such as Navdeep Singh, a leading expert in military law and a former Territorial Army officer; Sartej Singh Narula, the current president of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association and Anil Malhotra, known for his work in family law and international child custody cases;

Other notable names include Vikas Chatrath, recognised for his work in service law and his legal education channel ‘Beyond Law CLC’; Lokesh Sinhal, senior additional advocate general for Haryana; and Divya Sharma, a member of the central government’s senior panel since 2023.

At least five women advocates have been elevated — Puneet Kaur Sekhon, Monica Chhibber, Puja Sharma (Puja Chopra), Divya Sharma, and Promila Nain — marking a step towards greater gender representation in the senior bar.

The full list of designated senior advocates, as per the official notification, is as follows:

Raj Kumar Sharma, Ashit Malik, Ranjan Kumar Handa, Ravi Sodhi, Anil Malhotra, Nareshinder Singh Boparai, Jagdish Manchanda, Amit Sethi, Ajneesh Raj Takkar, Sudeep Mahajan, Jasdeep Singh Toor, Sartej Singh Narula, Manish Jain, Sukhjinder Singh Behl, Sukant Gupta, Inder Pal Singh Doabia, Vikas Singh, Adarsh Kumar Jain, Gurpreet Singh, Kamal Sehgal, Yogesh Putney, Ashu Mohan Punchhi, Sanjiv Gupta, Jasdeep Singh Gill, Deepender Singh, Mansur Ali, Sunil Kumar Singh Panwar, Raj Kumar (R.K. Arora), Lokesh Sinhal, Mandeep Singh Sachdev, Arvind Moudgil, Satwant Singh Rangi, Ashwani Kumar Talwar, Vikas Chatrath, Pardeep Singh (Poonia), Hemant Bassi, Pawan Girdhar, Gautam Dutt, Amardeep Singh (ADS Sukhija), Premjit Singh (Hundal), Anurag Goyal, Sant Pal Singh Sidhu, Promila Nain, Vipin Mahajan, Gurbinder Singh Dhillon (G.B.S. Dhillon), Monica Chhibber, Sarju Puri, Karambir Singh Nalwa, Aman Bahri, Puja Sharma (Puja Chopra), Salil Dev Singh Bali, Sunish Bindlish, Pankaj, Parminder Singh Shekhon, Navdeep Singh, Rajeev Anand, Sandeep Goyal, Ankur Mittal, Ravinder Singh Randhawa, Gaurav Mohunta, Jasdev Singh Mehndiratta, Pradeep Virk, Kunal Dawar, Rahul Sharma, Dheeraj Jain, Divya Sharma, Ravinder Malik (Ravi), Sarjit Bhadu, Sunil Kumar Nehra, Chanchal Kumar Singla, Maninder Singh, Aman Pal, Kshitij Sharma, Puneet Kaur Sekhon, Preet Inder Singh (Ahluwalia), and Akshay Kumar Jindal.

The designations come with a key stipulation from the Chief Justice and judges: each senior advocate must conduct at least ten free legal aid cases annually on a pro bono basis.