Overview
- The full court approved the designation of 85 advocates as senior advocates in a resolution passed on Friday after the reconsideration process.
- The fresh designations follow a 2025 Supreme Court direction that the Delhi High Court reconstitute its Permanent Committee and re‑examine candidates rejected or deferred in the 2024 round.
- A reconstituted Permanent Committee chaired by Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and including two senior judges, the Additional Solicitor General, the DHCBA president and a senior advocate conducted individual interviews and applied the 2024 point-based rules.
- The 85 names include named practitioners such as ED special counsel Zoheb Hossain, former ED counsel Nitesh Rana, special public prosecutor Amit Prasad and around 10–11 women among the designees.
- The result adds to the 70 senior advocates designated in 2024 and closes, for now, the dispute that led to a resignation and a Supreme Court petition while raising questions about scoring, committee conduct and representation in the profession.