Advocate Vikas Singh new SCBA chief

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, December 23

Senior advocate and former Additional Solicitor General Vikas Singh has been elected new president of the prestigious Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA).

Singh defeated his nearest rival senior advocate Dushyant Dave by a comfortable margin of 222 votes. While Singh secured 640 votes, Dave got 418.

Outgoing SCBA president and senior advocate Rupinder Singh Suri came third in the triangular fight with 308 votes, according to official results of the December 13 polls made available to the media.

Those who voted in the SCBA election included Attorney General KK Venugopal and senior advocates Fali Nariman, Soli Sorabjee, Kapil Sibal, P Chidambaram, Gopal Subramanium, Mukul Rohatgi, Ashok Desai, K Parasaran, CS Vaidyanathan and Parag Tripathi.

Singh, who hails from Bihar, is only the second senior advocate from eastern India to be elected SCBA president after veteran lawyer and former Law Minister AK Sen, who held the position five times, the last being during 1988-89.

Sukumar Pattjoshi and Vikrant Yadav have been elected SCBA vice-president and secretary. While Pattjoshi defeated his nearest rival Jitendra Mohan Sharma by a margin of 98 votes, Yadav defeated Amit Anand Tiwari by 310 votes.

Rahul Kaushik defeated Hema Sahu by 442 votes to get elected to the post of SCBA joint secretary. Maneesh Kumar Dubey and Pijush Kanti Roy are the new treasurer and joint treasurer.