Adarsh Sein Anand was the 29th Chief Justice of India,serving from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001.
Punjab and Haryana High Court is the common High Court for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in Chandigarh,India. Sanctioned strength of Judges of this High Court is 85 consisting of 64 Permanent Judges and 21 Additional Judges including Chief Justice. As of 16 August 2022,there are 57 Judges working in the High Court,comprising 40 Permanent and 17 Additional Judges.
The high courts of India are the highest courts of appellate jurisdiction in each state and union territory of India. However,a high court exercises its original civil and criminal jurisdiction only if the subordinate courts are not authorized by law to try such matters for lack of pecuniary,territorial jurisdiction. High courts may also enjoy original jurisdiction in certain matters,if so designated specially by the constitution,a state or union law.
Harjit Singh Bedi is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
The Government of Punjab,also known as the State Government of Punjab or locally as the State Government,is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Punjab and its 23 districts. It consists of an executive,led by the Governor of Punjab,a judiciary and a legislative branch.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India for seven years,firstly as a judge from 2012 to 2018,and as the 46th Chief Justice of India for 13 months from 2018 to 2019. He is serving as a Member of the Rajya Sabha,having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge on Gauhati High Court,and then was transferred as a judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court,where he later became chief justice. He is serving as a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Arjan Kumar Sikri is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on 12 April 2013. Earlier,he had served as the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired as senior most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019. Presently,he is an International Judge,at the Singapore International Commercial Court,[SICC] Singapore Supreme Court,he was sworn in to the post on 2 August 2019,by the President of Singapore. He is also the Chairperson of News Broadcasting Standards Authority
Mahesh Mittal Kumar is chairman of National Company Law Tribunal,since the body came into force. He served as 31st Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
Jagannath Kaushal was an Indian National Congress politician and Law Minister in the Government of India from 1982 to 1985. He studied law at Panjab University,Lahore,in 1936 and started legal practice at Patiala in 1937. Though he was selected as the District and Sessions Judge in 1947,he resigned from the post in 1949 after the State was merged with PEPSU,and returned to legal practice.
Pritam Pal is former Lokayukta,an anti-corruption ombudsman body in the Indian State of Haryana,India. After serving as Lokayukta he retired from services on 18 January 2016. He was born on 3 June 1947 in the village Kandroli in the District Yamunanagar,Haryana. After putting 14 years of practice in Law,he joined Haryana Superior Judicial Service and remained District and Sessions Judge of various districts. In the year 2002,he was posted as Registrar General and then elevated as permanent Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. On his superannuation,he was appointed as President,State Consumer Redressal Commission,UT,Chandigarh. Thereafter he was appointed Lokayukta,Haryana. He recommended action in many high-profile matters involving Ministers,MLAs,Builders,Promoters and senior officers for committing acts of corruption. In his reports to the Governor,for eradication of corruption,he recommended and suggested for introducing compulsory moral education at school level. He also headed the Monitoring Committee of National Green Tribunal constituted for the State of Punjab,Haryana,Himachal Pradesh and UT,Chandigarh. Presently,he is Vice-President of DAV College Managing Committee,New Delhi.
Vinod Kumar Bali was an Indian jurist who was the Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal,Principal Bench,New Delhi,and was the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court.
Sukhda Pritam is an Indian judge,presently Chief Judicial Magistrate. She remained as Joint Member Secretary,Haryana State Legal Services Authority in 2020-21. She also remained Deputy Registrar(Judicial) for two years at National Green Tribunal,Delhi. She is Judicial Magistrate First Class from Haryana Cadre. She was earlier appointed as Additional Civil Judge (Sr.) Division cum Judicial Magistrate in District Courts Sonipat since 19 April 2016. Her Father Justice Pritam Pal is a retired High Court Judge and was later appointed as Lokayukta,an anti-corruption ombudsman body of Haryana. After serving as Lokayukta her father retired from services on 18 January 2016. She was transferred and promoted from Chandigarh to Sonipat on 13 April 2016.
Hira Lal Sibal was an Indian lawyer,jurist and two-time Advocate General of Punjab and Haryana,known for his legal defence of cases against the noted Urdu writers,Ismat Chugtai and Saadat Hasan Manto in 1945. He practised at Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Supreme Court of India.
Ravinder Singh Dhull is a lawyer/politician of the State of Haryana,India. He is currently serving as Legal Advisor to Congress Legislative Party,Haryana headed by Leader of Opposition Haryana Chaudhary Bhupinder Singh Hooda,National Media Penalist Indian National Congress and State Spokesperson Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. He was appointed to the post on 9 June 2021. He is former Additional Advocate General for the State of Haryana and remained posted in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He is former State Media Penalist for Bhartiya Janta Party,Haryana. Earlier he has served as State Spokesperson for the Indian National Lok Dal from August 2014 till June 2019. His father Parminder Singh Dhull served as two time Member of Legislative Assembly of Haryana from Julana constituency in Jind District. His grand father Chaudhary Dal Singh was a noted politician of the area and six time M.L.A. from District Jind. He resigned from the office of Advocate General Haryana during the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest on 20 October 2020 in protest of the controversial three farmer bills being passed by the Parliament of India.
Ashok Bhan is an Indian Judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Krishna Murari is a judge of Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has also served as a judge of Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Kauser Edappagath is an Indian judge who is presently serving as a judge of Kerala High Court. The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Ernakulam,Kochi. He was serving as the Principal District and Sessions Judge,Ernakulam before being elevated as the judge of Kerala High Court.
Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana is the state regulatory and statutory representative body for lawyers practicing law in the three states of Punjab and Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh. It was constituted as per the mandatory requirement of Advocates Act,1961 and Bar Council of India. In March 1953,the 'All India Bar Committee',headed by S. R. Das,submitted a report which proposed the creation of a Bar Council for each state and an All-India Bar Council as an apex body. Members of the Bar Council are elected from amongst members enrolled and practicing as lawyers in Punjab,Haryana and Chandigarh,and they represent the state in Bar Council of India meetings. Bar Council enforces standards of professional conduct to be followed by member advocates,and designs etiquettes and has the power to enforce disciplinary guidelines over the members of Bar.
Sabina is an Indian judge. Presently,she is the Acting Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court and a former Judge of the Rajasthan High Court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
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