J. Sai Deepak is one of 71 lawyers recognized as Senior Advocates by the Delhi High Court, and the Supreme Court has granted this title to the newly appointed Additional Solicitor General.
The Delhi High Court has granted the title of Senior Advocate to 71 lawyers, including J. Sai Deepak, who is an engineer-turned-lawyer and author. In a related matter, the Supreme Court’s Full Court has appointed Raghavendra P. Shankar as Senior Advocate, effective November 29, 2024. He was named Additional Solicitor General on September 9 by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. The list from the Delhi High Court also features Advocate Arundhati Katju, who represented one of the Petitioners in the marriage equality case, while Sai Deepak represented one of the Respondents supporting the Union Government. Sai Deepak has written books such as India That Is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. The designation was made by the Permanent Committee of the Delhi High Court following the Senior Advocate Rules of 2024. This committee included Chief Justice Manmohan, Justice Vibhu Bakhru, Justice Yashwant Varma, Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma, and Senior Advocates Sudhir Nandrajog and Mohit Mathur.
Here is the complete list of Advocates recognized as Senior Advocates by the Delhi High Court:
- Gautam Narayan
- Sanjeev Sagar
- Sumeet Verma
- Anupam Srivastava
- Manu Sharma
- Pavan Narang
- Sanjay Dewan
- Sonu Bhatnagar
- Rajdipa Behura
- Pooja Mehra Saigal
- Apoorv Kurup
- Puneet Taneja
- Kunal Tandon
- Sumit Bansal
- Samrat Rabinder Nigam
- Anuraag Ahluwalia
- Tanveer Ahmed Mir
- Jeevesh Nagrath
- Abhijat
- Harish V Shankar
- Kaadambari
- Santosh Tripathi
- Swati Sukumar
- Vibha Mahajan Seth
- Ashim Vachher
- Amit Chadha
- Abhishek Malhotra
- Kirtiman Singh
- Manik Dogra
- Nandita Rao
- Vaibhav Rajgopal Gaggar
- Sandip Prabhakar
- Ashish Mohan
- Diya Kapur
- Manish Sharma
- Jatan Singh
- Sumeet Pushkarna
- Rashmi Chabra
- Sandeep Sharma
- Sai Deepak J
- Ajay Arora
- Madhav Khurana
- Manish Kumar Jha
- Sanjay Sharawat
- Aseem Chawla
- Surya Kant Singla
- Mriganga Dutta
- Gaurav Sarin
- Priya Kumar
- Anil Soni
- Ravi Prakash
- Arundhati Katju
- Buddy Anumalasetti Ranganadhan
- Ankit Jain
- Tamali Wad
- Jitendra Sethi
- Shyel Trehan
- Dharmesh Misra
- Uttam Datt
- Gyanendra Kumar
- Avininder Singh
- Pradeep Kumar Bakshi
- Jagdeep Sharma
- Rajiv Saxena
- Shashank Garg
- Aditya Narain
- Parvinder Chauhan
- Sachit Jolly
- Asheesh Jain
- Pragyan Pradip Sharma.
The resolution indicates that the Permanent Committee assessed all candidates who sought the Senior Advocate designation, with the exception of three individuals. The evaluation of one candidate was postponed due to medical reasons, while the decisions regarding two candidates were deferred as the Committee had not yet reviewed their requests for a relaxation of the eligibility criteria.
