New Delhi: Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has won the election for the President post of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). Kapil Sibal secured 1,066 votes and defeated his nearest rival and senior advocate Pradeep Rai. Advocate Rachana Srivastava was elected Vice President. She secured 816 votes and defeated nearest rival Sukumar Pattjoshi who secured 784 votes.
Sibal last served as the president of SCBA in 2001-02. He has served twice before that as well – in 1995–1996, 1997–1998. This is the fourth time, Kapil Sibal will serve as the president of the SCBA. Sibal had announced his candidature for for the post of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president on May 8. The other contenders were Priya Hingorani, Tripurari Ray, Neeraj Srivastava.
Adish Aggarwala (Senior Advocate) is the current president of the association, Pradeep Rai(Senior Advocate) is the Vice-president and Rohit Pandey(Advocate) is the Honorary Secretary. A Harvard Law School graduate, Sibal was the additional solicitor general of India during 1989-90. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1983.
On being asked about why he joined the race to SCBA President, he said “Quite frankly, this has been going on for the last three years or so. Members of the Bar – senior and junior – have been trying to persuade me; I have been resisting it because it is a lot of responsibility”.
“But I understand there are huge challenges before the Bar now. New entrants at the Bar, the relationship between bar associations and the Registry, the way cases are being listed at night, the way each court manages its list, and how each case is heard – nobody knows about it until morning. There are challenges with respect to members of the Bar, the need for coordination between the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) and institutions like the SCBA, connectivity of bar associations in the country etc.”, he further added.
Join our whatsapp group for Latest updates