Union Law Ministry appoints counsels

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 15: Union Ministry of Law and Justice today ordered engagement of Advocates as Senior Panel Counsel and Central Government Counsel for J&K High Court at Jammu and Srinagar Bench and Senior Panel Counsel and Additional Government Standing Counsel at CAT Circuit Bench, Jammu with immediate effect.
According to the order issued by Department of Legal Affairs, Judicial Section, in supersession of all earlier orders President has given nod to the engagement of new Senior Panel Counsel and Central Government Counsel for J&K High Court and Senior Panel Counsel and Additional Government Standing Counsel at CAT, Circuit Bench, Jammu for a period of three years or until further orders.
For High Court Jammu, the Senior Panel Counsel are Ajay Singh Manhas, L K Moza, Danish Butt and Rameshwar Singh Jamwal while as Central Government Counsel for High Court Jammu are Advocates Saquib Mahmood, Bhanu Jasrotia, Abhinandan Kotwal, Nazir Ahmed Chowdhary, Vishal Bharti, Suraj Singh, Primoksh Seth, Ravinder Kumar Gupta, S S Nanda, Y P Koushal, Hunur Gupta, Parshotam Chander Sharma, Ranjit Singh Jamwal, Raghu Mehta, Vikas Sharma, Rajesh Thapa, K K Razdan, Sunil Malhotra, Vishal Sharma, Adarsh Kumar, Sumeet Bhatia, Sandeep Gupta, Prem Nath Sadhotra, Rakesh Gupta, Vandana Sharma, Vimal Kumar Balgotra, Sudesh Kumar and Pranav Kohli.
The Senior Panel Counsel for High Court Srinagar is Advocate Masooda Jan while as Central Government Counsel for High Court Srinagar are Satinder Singh, Muzaffar Hamid Bhat, Hakim Aman Ali, Avatar Singh Sodhi and Nazir Ahmad Bhat.
Harshwardhan Gupta is Senior Panel Counsel for CAT Circuit Bench Jammu and Sudesh Magotra is Additional Government Standing Counsel for CAT Circuit Bench Jammu.