Exclude Vice-President Candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar's Name From Chamber Allotment List : SCBA President Writes To Supreme Court On His Request
2 years, 4 months ago

Exclude Vice-President Candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar's Name From Chamber Allotment List : SCBA President Writes To Supreme Court On His Request

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Supreme Court Bar Association President and Senior Advocate Vikas Singh has addressed a letter to Top Court's Registrar to exclude NDA's Vice Presidential candidate and Senior Advocate Jagdeep Dhankhar's name from the lawyers chambers' allotment list on his request.When the list of Supreme Court lawyers who have been allotted chambers was published last week, the name of Dhankhar, who used. Supreme Court Bar Association President and Senior Advocate Vikas Singh has addressed a letter to Top Court's Registrar to exclude NDA's Vice Presidential candidate and Senior Advocate Jagdeep Dhankhar's name from the lawyers chambers' allotment list on his request. When the list of Supreme Court lawyers who have been allotted chambers was published last week, the name of Dhankhar, who used to practice at the Supreme Court before his appointment as the Governor of West Bengal in 2019, also appeared in it. "Keeping the interest of the Bar at heart, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar Ji has conveyed his wish to voluntarily withdraw from the process of chamber allotment so that other lawyers in need of a chamber may be allotted the same," the letter stated.

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