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Response to Bar Council of India Resolution dated 22.12.2019

The undersigned advocates distance themselves from the statements made by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in its Resolution dated 22.12.2019 with regard to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and the ongoing democratic protests against it. The BCI is the statutory body that governs all advocates in India and is mandated to safeguard the credibility of the legal profession. The BCI ought not to release statements that give the impression that it is doing so on behalf of all advocates as the Resolution does not represent the views of the Bar and certainly not the undersigned advocates. While the individual office bearers of the BCI are free to express their opinions in their personal capacity, the use of the BCI's platform to express the personal views of some is a disservice to the principles that the BCI stands for. It is also clear that the Resolution does not speak for all advocates as various statements have been released by sections of the Bar condemning not only the disparate impact of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 on minorities but also the excesses of the police forces. A protest march was also conducted by advocates outside Jamia Millia Islamia University on 21.12.2019 against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 as well as the brutal attacks against students by the Delhi police. It is also extremely distressing to note that in its Resolution, the BCI has referred to the lakhs of citizens of this country who are exercising their democratic right to protest, out of sheer anguish, as the "illiterate ignorant mass". It does not befit the stature of the BCI for such statements to be made. It has been mentioned in the Resolution that damage to public property and violence against the police are serious issues. While there is no dispute with regard to this, the deaths of more than 25 people including minors (as on 24.12.2019), the use of excessive and disproportionate force against protestors, minors being detained and beaten, and the widespread use of arbitrary internet shutdowns are also grave issues. These are issues that legal education and ethics have equipped, and indeed encouraged, us to work on. We hope that the BCI and State Bar Councils across the country lend their support to advocates working to address these issues. The Resolution also states that "the bar expresses solidarity with our police and armed forces". Aside from the fact that it must be emphasized again that the BCI has not spoken for the Bar, it is amiss that the BCI, a body which is supposed to stand up for the Bar, did not deem it fit to express solidarity with advocates such as Mr. Mohd. Shoaib who has been detained in Lucknow or the hundreds of advocates fighting across the country to uphold the rights of citizens as recognised by the Constitution.

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The Advocates Act, 1961 envisages certain duties that the BCI must fulfill. These include laying down standards of professionalism and ensuring the highest degree of legal education in the country. Respectfully, the BCI's role is to ensure that law and procedure take the proper course, and not to embolden impediments to justice, especially by State entities. Excessive and unnecessary deference to the State is unbecoming of the BCI's standing. When allegations of grave abuse of State power are involved, it is not for the BCI to pass judgment either way. The Bar plays an essential role in the preservation of the Rule of Law, which is the essence of democracy, and a basic tenet of our Constitution. The legal fraternity, which fosters both the judiciary and practicing advocates, is indispensable to the balance of powers under the Constitution. It is incumbent upon us as members of this fraternity to not take a partisan approach in the present circumstances. It is our responsibility to ensure that the Constitution's principles and ideals are upheld even during difficult times. Essential to this is protecting the rights of minorities, and the rights of those exercising their Fundamental Right to dissent. As advocates, our allegiance is to uphold the values of the Constitution and any violation of the same cannot go unaddressed. The BCI's Resolution also calls for advocates to convince people around them to not protest as the matter relating to the constitutionality of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 is pending before the Hon’ble Supreme Court. The pendency of the challenge before the Hon'ble Supreme Court does not, in any manner, take away from the right of citizens to exercise their democratic and constitutional right to protest - either against the Act itself or against State excesses relating to the Act. We strongly deprecate the Resolution dated 22.12.2019 and trust that the BCI will stand for the rights of members of the Bar in the future and join us in ensuring that the freedoms envisioned by the Constitution are upheld. We urge the BCI to perform its statutory duties in a non-partisan manner and to refrain from expressing opinions that may prove detrimental to the people's faith in the justice system.

1. A. Fernandes, Maharashtra 2. A.J. Jawad, Chennai 3. A. Mohamed Yusuff, Madurai 4. A.P.S. Mann, Chandigarh 5. A.S. Chandihoke, Delhi 6. Aaditya Karnavat, Ahmedabad 7. Aadya 8. Aakanksha Badkur, Delhi 9. Aakash Chandran 10. Aakash Chaubey 11. Aarushi Mahajan, Delhi 12. Aatif Salar, Hyderabad

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13. Aatmin, Mumbai 14. Aavishkar Singhvi, Delhi 15. Aayushi Bana 16. Aayush Kapoor 17. Abdullah Khan, Delhi 18. Abdulla Naseer, Delhi 19. Abdulsamad 20. Abhay Kumar 21. Abhay Taksal, Aurangabad 22. Abhijith S.R. 23. Abhimanyu George Jain 24. Abhimanyu Verma 25. Abhinav Pathak 26. Abhinav Thakur, Mumbai 27. Abhisek Mohanty 28. Abhishek Kumar, Patna 29. Abhishek Nath Tripathi, Delhi 30. Abhishek V.S., Kerala 31. Abiha Zaidi 32. Abir Phukan, Delhi 33. Abisaar 34. Abishek Jenasenan, Chennai 35. Abu Nasar, Patna 36. Achyuth 37. Adarsh Kumar 38. Aditi, Haryana 39. Aditi Ameria, Jaipur 40. Aditi Dani 41. Aditi Gupta, Delhi 42. Aditi Mittal, Delhi 43. Aditi Umapathy 44. Adit Khorana, Delhi 45. Adit Nilesh Shah, Bengaluru 46. Aditya Garg 47. Aditya Patel 48. Aditya Raj, Delhi 49. Aditya Srivastava, Delhi 50. Aditya Thyagarajan 51. Adity Mehta, Mumbai 52. Adreeka Pandey, High Court of Calcutta 53. Agni Sen, Delhi 54. Ahana Singh 55. Ahmad Ibrahim, Supreme Court of India 56. Aishaani Srivastava

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57. Aishwarya Mohapatra 58. Aishwarya Rao 59. Aishwarya Singh, Delhi 60. Aishwary Kumar Tiwari, Delhi 61. Aivan Raj, Ernakulam 62. Ajita Sharma 63. Akash Deep 64. Akash Joshi 65. Akash Karmakar, Delhi 66. Akash Rebellion, Mumbai 67. Akhil Bhardwaj, Delhi 68. Akhileshwari Reddy, Bangalore 69. Akhil Sibal, Delhi 70. Akshar Narayanan, Kochi 71. Akshat 72. Akshat Srivastava, Delhi 73. Akshaya 74. Akshay Dev 75. Akshay Ram, Bangalore 76. Akshay Sharma, Delhi 77. Akshay Singh Sengar, Delhi 78. Akshita Pandit, Mumbai 79. Akshit Goyal, Delhi 80. Ali Hassan Khan, High Court of Madras 81. Alister, Mumbai 82. Allen E. Baiju, Trivandrum, Kerala 83. Almas Shaikh 84. Alok Prasanna Kumar, Bangalore 85. Altaf Khan 86. Altamish Ilyas Siddiki 87. Amala Dasarathi, Delhi 88. Aman, Delhi 89. Aman Golechha 90. Aman Khan, Delhi 91. Aman Nandrajog 92. Aman Shukla 93. Amarta Roy 94. Ambar, Delhi 95. Amber Fatmi, Delhi 96. Amitabh Tewari, Chandigarh 97. Amit Agarwal, Delhi 98. Amit Chowdhury, Bangalore 99. Amith Nayak, Bengaluru 100. Amit Shukla, Delhi

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101. Amlan Jyoti Borah 102. Amlan Mohanty 103. Amrita Shivaprasad, Delhi 104. Amritha Kumar 105. Amritha Salian, Bengaluru 106. Anand Sree, Delhi 107. Anannya 108. Anant Ram Mishra, Delhi 109. Ananttika Singh 110. Aneesh Patnaik, Delhi 111. Angad Mehta, Delhi 112. Angaj Gautam 113. Angeline Benny 114. Anil 115. Anil Wilson 116. Animesh Sharma, High Court of Punjab & Haryana 117. Anina D’Cunha 118. Anini Debbarman 119. Anirudh Hariani 120. Anirudh Singh, Delhi 121. Anita Shekhar Castellino, Mumbai 122. Anjali Joisa 123. Anju Anna John 124. Ankit 125. Ankita Agarwala, Mumbai 126. Ankita Das, Karnataka 127. Ankita Mahajana, Delhi 128. Ankita S., Nagpur 129. Ankita Wilson, Delhi 130. Ankit Grewal, Chandigarh 131. Ankit Jaglan, Delhi 132. Ankit Virmani 133. Ankur Jahagirdar, Pune 134. Ankur Sood 135. Ankush Bhardwaj, Delhi 136. Anna Thomas 137. Anshu Kapoor, Delhi 138. Anshuman, Delhi 139. Anshuman Mozumdar, Mumbai 140. Anshum Goswami 141. Antony R. Julian, Delhi 142. Anubha Rastogi, Mumbai 143. Anubhuti Bhardwaj 144. Anubhuti Mishra, Delhi

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145. Anuj Bahukhandi 146. Anuj Kapoor, Delhi 147. Anupama Singh, Delhi 148. Anupradha Singh, Delhi 149. Anurag Gupta 150. Anurag Pandey 151. Anusha Jacob, Mumbai 152. Anusha R., Hyderabad 153. Anushka Singh 154. Anush Raajan, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India 155. Anusri K. 156. Apar Gupta, Delhi 157. Aparimita Pratap 158. Apoorva Sharma 159. Apoorv P. Tripathi 160. Apurva Zutshi 161. Archit, Delhi 162. Arjun, Delhi 163. Arjun Mital, Mumbai 164. Arjun Rajgopal 165. Arjun Sheoran, Chandigarh 166. Arjun Singh Puri 167. Aroon Menon, Delhi 168. Arpana Vasanthakumar 169. Arpitha Desai, Delhi 170. Arunima Chatterjee, Delhi 171. Arunima Kedia, Delhi 172. Arun Kasi, Delhi 173. Arun Sri Kumar, Delhi/Bengaluru 174. Arvind Abraham 175. Arvind Narrain, Bangalore 176. Asad Iqbal, High Court of Delhi 177. Asadulla Thangal, Mumbai 178. Asha Rajan 179. Asher Revi Job, Ernakulam 180. Ashish Goel 181. Ashish Singh 182. Ashish Virmani, Delhi 183. Ashraya Rao 184. Ashray Chopra, Delhi 185. Ashwini Vaidialingam, Chennai 186. Asif Iqbal, Delhi 187. Aslam 188. Asma Raheem

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189. Asmita Singhvi 190. Asok Cherian, High Court of Kerala 191. Astha Singh 192. Athira Sankar P.K. 193. Atreyo Banerjee, Delhi 194. Atulaa Krishnamurthy, Bangalore 195. Avani Chokshi, Bangalore 196. Avani Maha 197. Avantika Mehta, Delhi 198. Avijit Patnaik, Delhi 199. Avinash Amarnath 200. Avirup Nag 201. Ayushi Toshniwal 202. Ayush Srivastava, Lucknow 203. Azhar Meer, Bangalore 204. Azmat Amanullah, Delhi 205. B. Abhay Siddhanth, Amaravathi, High Court of Andhra Pradesh 206. Balaji, Chennai 207. Basit Kamran Zaidi, Delhi 208. Bhakti Acharya, Mumbai 209. Bharat Singh 210. Bhargav Kosuru, Mumbai 211. Bhargav R. Thali 212. Bhavana Sunder 213. Bhavini 214. Bhavya Mohan, Bangalore 215. Bhishm Khanna 216. Bhoomika Choudhury 217. Bilal Anwar Khan, Delhi 218. Biswapriya Kanungo, Bhubaneswar 219. Bobby Kunhu, Thrissur 220. Brajesh Kumar, Delhi 221. Burjis 222. C. Nageshwaran, Mumbai 223. C. Rajaguru, High Court of Madras 224. Chaitra Bhat 225. Chandan Kumar, Delhi 226. Chandan Maheshwari 227. Chander Uday Singh, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India 228. Chandni Chawla, Mumbai 229. Cheryl Dsouza 230. Chirag 231. Chirayu J., Delhi 232. Chirkut Tyagi, Kolkata

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233. Chitra Narayan 234. Chitranshul Sinha, Delhi 235. Choudhary Ali Zia Kabir, Delhi 236. Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate, Delhi 237. D. Nagasaila Chennai 238. Dakshaa Arora, Delhi 239. Damini K., Delhi 240. Danish Zubair Khan, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India 241. Darius Khambata 242. Debanjana Mukherjee, Mumbai 243. Debasmita, Delhi 244. Deepakar 245. Deepak Sridhar, Delhi 246. Deepanshi Ahlawat 247. Deepa Rekha, Mumbai 248. Devahuti Pathak, Delhi 249. Devak Vardhan 250. Devansh Arya, Delhi 251. Devika, Chennai 252. Devika Chadha 253. Devika Sen 254. Devina, Delhi 255. Dhananjaya Mishra 256. Dharitry Phookan 257. Dhawal Chopda, Mumbai 258. Dhiren Shah 259. Dhruva Gandhi, Mumbai 260. Dhruv Sood 261. Dhvani Mehta, Delhi 262. Diksha D. Sanyal 263. Dipankar Das, Delhi 264. Dipika Jain, Delhi 265. Disha Saxena, Mumbai 266. Divij Joshi, High Court of Punjab 267. Divya Padmanabhan 268. Divye Sharma 269. Diya Mehta 270. Dnyanraj Desai, High Court of Bombay 271. Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi 272. Dr. Saif Mahmood 273. Dushyant, Delhi 274. Eesha Bakshi, Delhi 275. Ejaz Maqbool, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India 276. Erica Sharma

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277. Esha Shekhar, Delhi 278. Eva Bishwal, Delhi 279. Fahad Shaikh, High Court of Bombay 280. Faiz Shaikh 281. Faiz Tajuddin 282. Falakyar Askari, High Court of Patna 283. Faraz 284. Fareha Ahmad Khan 285. Fauzia Shakil 286. Fazal Abdali, Delhi 287. Ferzana 288. Fidel Sebastian, Delhi 289. Firdaus Moosa 290. Gaganjyot Singh 291. Gargi Yadav 292. Gary Mukhopadhyaya 293. Gaurav Agrawal 294. Gaurav Dayal 295. Gaurav H. 296. Gauravjeet Narwan 297. Gautam Bhatia, Delhi 298. Gautam Chopra 299. Gayatri Verma, Delhi 300. George Pallath 301. Gorang Goyal, Delhi 302. Goutham R.V., Karnataka 303. Govind Naidu 304. Greetika, Delhi 305. Gulnar A. Mistry, Mumbai 306. Gunjan Arora 307. Gunjan Rai 308. Gunjan Singh, Delhi 309. Gurmat Randhawa 310. Haaris Fazili, Delhi 311. Hafeezur Rahman, High Court of Bombay 312. Haider Ali, Delhi 313. Haridya Iyengar, Delhi 314. Harinder Pal Singh Ishar, High Court of Punjab & Haryana 315. Harini Raghupathy, Delhi 316. Harsha Goel, Mumbai 317. Harshitha Reddy, Delhi 318. Harshit Rai 319. Hasan Murtaza, Delhi 320. Hasmit Trivedi, Mumbai

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321. Hemanth Pothula, Delhi 322. Hemant Kothari 323. Himakshi Piplani, Delhi 324. Hiral Gupta, Delhi 325. Huzefa Ahmadi, Senior Advocate 326. Imtiaz B. 327. Imtiyaz Puthawala, Ahmedabad 328. Inayat Singh 329. Indira Jaising, Senior Advocate, Delhi 330. Indira Unninayar, Supreme Court of India and High Court of Delhi 331. Ipshita Ahuja 332. Iqbal Chagla 333. Iqbal Tahir, Delhi 334. Ira Chatterjee 335. Irfan Bashir 336. Irfan pathan, Nasik 337. Isha G., Delhi 338. Isha Narain, Mumbai 339. Ishan Handa, Mumbai 340. Ishita Yadu, Lucknow 341. J. Sai Deepak, Delhi 342. Jaha Sara, Visakhapatnam 343. Jahnavi Sindhu, Delhi 344. Jai Kanade 345. Jainish Jain, Mumbai 346. Jai Sahai Endlaw 347. Jalaluddeen Mohammed 348. Janak Dwarkadas, Mumbai 349. Janaki Arun, Delhi 350. Janani Sekhar, Delhi 351. Jasleen Kaur 352. Jason Vengattu Johny 353. Jasvir Singh, Sangrur (Punjab) 354. Javed Ahmed 355. Javed Mahmud Rao 356. Jawahar Raja 357. Jayant Bhushan 358. Jayant Karn, Goa 359. Jaya Sengupta 360. Jayne Kuriakose 361. Jesuraj Perkmans, Delhi 362. Jhuma Sen 363. Jitesh Talwani, Delhi 364. Jithesh V.

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365. Jithin Palakkal 366. John Sebastian, Delhi 367. Joyeeta Banerjee 368. K.M. Abdul Jabbar, Chikmaglur 369. K.M. Surendran, Thalassery, Kannur 370. K. Manickaraj 371. K.T. Sidhiq, High Court of Kerala at Ernakulam 372. K.V.B., Delhi 373. K.V. Seshareddy Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh 374. Kabeer Shrivastava, Delhi 375. Kaif Ahmed, Delhi 376. Kamini Jaiswal, Supreme Court of India 377. Kanika K. 378. Kanika Sood 379. Kanisha Vora 380. Kanishka Shivhare 381. Kapil Sibal, Delhi 382. Karan Goyal 383. Karan Joseph, Bengaluru 384. Karan Mathur, Delhi 385. Karan Seth, Delhi 386. Karishma Maria, Delhi 387. Kartavi 388. Karthik Hulikal 389. Kartik D. Monga, Delhi 390. Karun Gupta, Delhi 391. Kaushik Mishra 392. Kaushik Mishra, Delhi 393. Kaustav Saha, Delhi 394. Kawaljit Singh, Delhi 395. Kawalpreet Kaur, Delhi 396. Keerat Kaur Kular 397. Keerthana, Hyderabad 398. Kekhroneo T. Koza 399. Kevin Peter 400. Khalil ur Rehman, High Court of Delhi 401. Kirat Randhawa, Delhi 402. Kishore Kumaar, Delhi 403. Komal Parakh, Mumbai 404. Koshy John, Delhi 405. Kotla Harshavardhan 406. Koustubh Athavale, Mumbai/Thane 407. Krishna, Pune 408. Krishnendu Sen, Mumbai

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409. Krishnesh Bapat, Delhi 410. Kriti Awasth, Delhi 411. Kritika, Mumbai 412. Kritika Vohra 413. Kriti Sharma, Delhi 414. Kruthika N.S., Bengaluru 415. Kruthi Venkatesh, Mumbai 416. Kshitiz Khera 417. Kumar Panda 418. Kunal Chandel 419. Kunal Kaul 420. Kunal Mehta, Bombay High Court 421. Kush Chaturvedi, Delhi 422. Lakshmi Neelakantan 423. Lakshya Kampani, Delhi NCR 424. Lavkesh Bhambhani, Delhi 425. Lenin Vinober, Delhi 426. Leo Valan L., Chennai 427. Lipsa Acharyya, Delhi 428. Lizum Wangdi, Mumbai 429. Lohit Ganguly, Supreme Court of India 430. Lorraine Misquith 431. Lzafeer Ahmad B.F. 432. M. Bandukwala 433. M. Bhatt, Mumbai 434. M. Nomanul Haq 435. Maansi Verma 436. Madhukar Rao, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India 437. Madhur Bharatiya 438. Mahalakshmi Pavani, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India 439. Majid Afsar Siddiqi, Mumbai 440. Malavika B. Pillai, Delhi 441. Malavika M.V. 442. Malavika Prasad, Bengaluru 443. Malavika Rajkotia, Delhi 444. Mallika Kamal, Delhi 445. Manan Lahoty, Mumbai 446. Manan Mishra 447. Manasa, Bengaluru 448. Mangla Verma, Delhi 449. Manisha Saran 450. Manish Kumar Yadav, Meerut 451. Manish Manral 452. Manish Mishra, Delhi

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453. Manish Sharma, Delhi 454. Manjari Shah 455. Manjira Dasgupta, Delhi 456. Manjula Chawla 457. Manvi Priya 458. Mary Mitzy, Delhi 459. Matam Manogna, Bangalore 460. Mathavi Senguttuvan, Chennai 461. Maulshree Pathak 462. Mayank Mikhail Mukherjee, Delhi 463. Mayank Soni, Delhi 464. Md. Mobin Akbar 465. Md. Shadab Ansari 466. Meer Adil Ali 467. Meera Gopal 468. Megha Bahl, Delhi 469. Meghna S., Delhi 470. Mihira Sood 471. Mini Mathew 472. Mini Saxena 473. Mira Swaminathan, Bangalore 474. Misha, Delhi 475. Misha Chandna, Mumbai 476. Mishika, Delhi 477. Mohammed Adnan, Telangana 478. Mohammed Danish 479. Mohammed Raheem 480. Mohammed Talha, Nanded 481. Mohan, Chennai 482. Mohan Katarki, Senior Advocate, Delhi 483. Mohit Negi, Delhi 484. Mohsin Khan, Delhi 485. Monaj Akhtar, Dhanbad 486. Monika Thakur 487. Moulshree Shukla 488. Mridula Vijairaghavan 489. Mriga Kunwar Solanki 490. Mrinalini Ravindranath, Delhi 491. Mudrika Bansal, Delhi 492. Muizz Drabu 493. Muruganantham, Chennai 494. Mutahhar Khan, Mumbai 495. N.D. Pancholi, Delhi 496. NS Tanvi, Chennai

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497. Nabeela 498. Nabila Hassan, Delhi 499. Nachiket Yagnik 500. Nairita Roy Chaudhuri, Kolkata 501. Nameer Khan, Delhi 502. Nameer Mohsin Khan, Delhi 503. Namita, Delhi 504. Namrata Bhagwatula, Delhi 505. Namrata Chatterjee 506. Namrata Ramachandran 507. Namrata Zaveri, High Court of Bombay 508. Nandita Bajpai 509. Nand Kumar Sagar 510. Nanita Sharma 511. Natasha, Bombay 512. Natasha Aggarwal, Delhi 513. Natasha Maheshwari, Mumbai 514. Naved, Bombay 515. Naved Rafiq, Rajasthan 516. Navkiran Singh 517. Navroz H. Seervai, Mumbai 518. Neelabh Dubey 519. Neeraja Balakrishnan 520. Neha Dhir 521. Neha Sharma 522. Neha Singhal 523. Neha Sonwane, Mumbai 524. Nidhi Chikkerur 525. Nidhi Khanna, Delhi 526. Nihas Basheer, Mumbai 527. Nijamuddin Ansari 528. Nikhil Ahuja, Delhi 529. Nikhil Borwankar, Delhi 530. Nikhil P. Joseph, Mumbai 531. Nikhil Rohatgi, Delhi 532. Nikhil Singhvi, Delhi 533. Nikita Agarwal 534. Nikitha Surabhi, Delhi 535. Niladri Maulik 536. Nilesh Y. Ukey, Mumbai 537. Nilima Dutta, Mumbai 538. Nimay Dave, High Court of Bombay 539. Nimisha Nat Narayan, Delhi 540. Nimisha Srinivas, Mumbai

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541. Nimita Kaul 542. Nina Nariman, Delhi 543. Ninni Susan Thomas, Delhi 544. Nirmal Mahtani, Mumbai 545. Nishchal Anand, Delhi 546. Nishi 547. Nishtha, Delhi 548. Nitin Meshram 549. Nitya Kaligotla, Bengaluru 550. Nitya Kalyani 551. Niyati Singh Rathore, Jaipur 552. Nooruddin Dhilla, Mumbai 553. Noyonika 554. Nupur Mittal 555. Nupur Raut 556. Oliullah Laskar, Guwahati 557. Omanakuttan 558. Oshin Pandey 559. P.A. Noor Muhamed, Delhi 560. P.J. Joe Paul 561. P.M. Mohammad Shiraz, Kochi 562. P. Narayanan, Kochi 563. P. Roy, Delhi 564. P.V. Dinesh, Delhi 565. P.V. Surendranath, Senior Advocate 566. Pallabika Mitra 567. Pallavi 568. Pallavi T. 569. Pallichal S.K. Pramod, Kerala 570. Paras Nath Singh 571. Parikalp 572. Parinaz, Mumbai 573. Paritosh Sharma 574. Parth Sarthy Kaushik, Delhi 575. Parul Kumar, Delhi 576. Parvez Memon, Mumbai 577. Pattechaat Daruwala, Ahmedabad 578. Paulomi Mehta, High Court of Bombay 579. Pavishka Mittal, Delhi 580. Pavitra Venkateswaran, High Court of Madras 581. Payal Chawla 582. Pooja Dhar, Delhi 583. Prabhu 584. Pradeep Nayak, Bangalore

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585. Pradyuman Kaistha, Delhi 586. Praggya Surana 587. Pragya Ganjoo, Delhi 588. Prajwala K.H., Bengaluru 589. Prajwal K. Aradhya, Bangalore 590. Prakash Kumar 591. Prakhar Bhardwaj 592. Pranav 593. Pranav Verma 594. Pranjal Bhattacharya 595. Pranjal Kishore, Delhi 596. Pranjit Kr. Bhattacharya 597. Prasanna. R, Karnataka 598. Prasanna S. 599. Prasenjit Keswani 600. Prashant Bhushan, Delhi 601. Prashanth K.P., Delhi 602. Prashant Jha 603. Prashant Narang, Delhi 604. Prashant Singh, Delhi 605. Prasouk Jain, Delhi 606. Prateek Sharma, Delhi 607. Prathik Karthikeyan 608. Pratiksha, Mumbai 609. Preethika 610. Preetika Dwivedi, Delhi 611. Preeti Kolluri, Hyderabad 612. Preeti Pratishruti Dash, Delhi 613. Prembhari Thakkar, High Court of Bombay 614. Prem Mardi, Ranchi 615. Prerana Chaturvedi 616. Prerna Arora, Delhi 617. Pritha Srikumar, Delhi 618. Prithvi Kapur 619. Priya Aristotle 620. Priyadarshini D., Delhi 621. Priyadarshini Mishra 622. Priyanka Bharti, Delhi 623. Priyanka Shukla 624. Priyanka Vontela 625. Priyank Mangal 626. Priya Sinha 627. Puja, Patna 628. Purav

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629. Purnima Bhat Kak 630. Pyoli, Delhi 631. Qudsia Tabassum 632. R. Malviya 633. R.N. Naveen, Bengaluru 634. R. Roy, Delhi 635. R.S. Lakshman, Delhi 636. Rachana Joshi Issar, Delhi 637. Rachel Noronha, Delhi 638. Radhika, Delhi 639. Radhika Goyal, Mumbai 640. Radhika Kolluru, Delhi 641. Radhika Roy, Delhi 642. Raghav 643. Raghav Shah 644. Raghvendra Kumar, Delhi 645. Ragini Gupta, Delhi 646. Rahul Bhatia 647. Rahul Das 648. Rahul Gulati 649. Rahul Mehra, Delhi 650. Rahul Raman, Latehar (Jharkhand) 651. Rahul Srivastava 652. Rajani Iyer, Mumbai 653. Rajarshi Sen 654. Rajavelu Karunanithi 655. Rajendra Dangwal, Delhi 656. Rajesh, Pattambi 657. Rajesh Inamdar 658. Rajesh Kumar, Bangalore 659. Rajesh Tyagi, Supreme Court of India 660. Raji Gururaj 661. Raji Sharma 662. Rajiv Patil, Senior Advocate, Mumbai 663. Rajiv Thakur, Mumbai 664. Rakesh S. Akole, Pune 665. Rakshanda Deka 666. Ramachandran Vadakkedath, Mumbai 667. Ramanand Mundkur, Bangalore 668. Raman Jit Singh Chima, Delhi 669. Rangon Choudhury, Delhi 670. Ranjeeta Rohatgi 671. Ranvir S. Chauhan, Chandigarh 672. Rao Abdul Ahad Khan

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673. Raphael D'Souza, Mumbai 674. Rashika Narain, Mumbai 675. Rasmi Ranjan Jena, Bhubaneswar 676. Raushan Tara Jaswal, Delhi 677. Ravinder Singh, Amritsar 678. Razzak Ali Khan, Hyderabad 679. Rebecca John, Senior Advocate 680. Renoy Vincent, High Court of Kerala 681. Reshma Sekhar, Delhi 682. Reshma Vaidya Gupte, Mumbai 683. Rhea, Delhi 684. Rhea Goyal 685. Ria Singh Sawhney, Delhi 686. Richa Roy, Mumbai 687. Rido Pina, Itanagar 688. Rijul Rajesh, Delhi 689. Rishabh Bansal, Delhi 690. Rishab Lingam 691. Rishika Harish 692. Ritesh Dhar Dubey, Delhi 693. Ritika Ajitsaria, Mumbai 694. Ritika Singhal 695. Ritika Sinha, Delhi 696. Ritvik Lukose, Delhi 697. Ritwik Bhattacharya, Mumbai 698. Robert Gibbs 699. Rohan 700. Rohan, Mumbai 701. Rohan George, Delhi 702. Rohan Kumar, Mumbai 703. Rohan Poddar, Delhi 704. Rohan Thawani 705. Rohit Rao 706. Roma Das 707. Ronita Bhattacharya, Mumbai 708. Ronjini Ray 709. Roohi Kohli 710. Rudrajit Ghosh, Delhi 711. Rudrani Tyagi 712. Rukmani Seth, Delhi 713. Rukmini Khairnar, Mumbai 714. Rupali Dungdung, High Court of Jharkhand 715. Rupali Samuel, Delhi 716. Ruth

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717. S. Abhishek Iyer, Delhi 718. S.G. Aney 719. S.I. Abdul Kalam Bagadursha, High Court of Madras 720. S.M. Vivekanandh, Delhi 721. S. Mohammed Raiz, Delhi 722. S.R. Mahajir, Hyderabad 723. Saaduzzaman 724. Saahil Kaul, Delhi 725. Sahana Manjesh 726. Saheli Moitra, Bengaluru 727. Sahil Kher 728. Sahil Tokas 729. Sai Kaushal 730. Saket Sikri, Delhi 731. Sakshi Singh 732. Sakshi Yadav 733. Salim Ambar Inamdar 734. Saloni, Jodhpur 735. Saloni Angras 736. Sameer Bhat 737. Samudra Sarangi, Delhi 738. Samyak Gangwal 739. Sandhya Raju 740. Sandra Susan Mathew, Mumbai 741. Sangeeta Chakravorty 742. Sanjana M. 743. Sanjana Srikumar, Delhi 744. Sanjay Jain, Delhi 745. Sanjay Ravi 746. Sanjay Singhvi, Mumbai 747. Sankalp S. Srivastava, Delhi 748. Sannoy Das, High Court of Calcutta 749. Sanya Sud, Delhi 750. Sanyukta Banerjie, Delhi 751. Saparya Sood, Delhi 752. Saptarshi Banerjee, High Court of Calcutta 753. Saranga Ugalmugle, High Court of Bombay at Bombay/Goa 754. Saransh Shaw, Delhi 755. Sarim Naved 756. Sarvjeet Singh, Delhi 757. Saskhi Jhalani, Delhi 758. Satakshi Sood, Delhi 759. Satish Maneshinde, Mumbai 760. Satyajit Gupta, Delhi

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761. Satyam Aneja, Chandigarh/Panipat 762. Saud Khan 763. Saumya 764. Saurajay Nanda, Delhi 765. Saurav Panda 766. Saurav Samaddar, Bangalore 767. Seema Misra, Delhi 768. Shadan Farasat, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India 769. Shadath Anvar 770. Shagun Singh 771. Shahab Ahmad, High Court of Delhi 772. Shahbaz Malbari 773. Shahrukh Alam 774. Shah Usman 775. Shakti Sekhar, High Court of Orissa at Cuttack 776. Shakya Sen, High Court of Calcutta 777. Shalini Gera 778. Shamim Haider 779. Shanaya Cyrus Irani 780. Shankar Narayanan, Delhi 781. Sharad Bansal 782. Sharan Jagtiani 783. Shardha Rajam 784. Shardul Gopujkar 785. Sharmila Kaushik 786. Sharvari Kothawade 787. Shashank Atreya, Bangalore 788. Shatakratu Sahu 789. Shaurya Puri, High Court of Punjab & Haryana 790. Shaurya Sahay 791. Shaurya V. Kuthiala, Delhi 792. Shayak Chakraborty, Kolkata 793. Sherna Doongaji, Mumbai 794. Shibu Varghese 795. Shikha, Bengaluru 796. Shikha Khurana, Delhi 797. Shikhar Saha 798. Shinoj K. Narayanan, Delhi 799. Shipra Padhi, Mumbai 800. Shishir Vayttaden, Mumbai 801. Shivambika Sinha, Delhi 802. Shivangi Singh 803. Shivangi Sud 804. Shivangi Tyagi

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805. Shivendra Singh, Supreme Court of India 806. Shlok Dalal 807. Shobhit Reen 808. Shobhit Shukla, Delhi 809. Shodhan Babu A.M. 810. Shraddha Suryavanshi 811. Shravanthi Suresh-Silver, Bangalore 812. Shreiya Maheshwari, Delhi 813. Shreya, Delhi 814. Shreya Agarwal, Delhi 815. Shreya Basu 816. Shreya Chaudhary 817. Shreya Gupta, Mumbai 818. Shreya Jad 819. Shreya Munoth, Delhi 820. Shreyangshi 821. Shreya Ramesh 822. Shreyashi Ray, Ranchi 823. Shreyasi Tripathi, Delhi 824. Shrijita Bhattacharya 825. Shrishti, Patna 826. Shrutanjaya Bhardwaj, Delhi 827. Shruti Likes, Bombay 828. Shruti Tulpule, High Court of Bombay 829. Shruttima Ehersa 830. Shubhaang Sinha, Delhi 831. Shubhangi Garg, Delhi 832. Shuchita Bhushan Vayttaden 833. Shweta Malik, Delhi 834. Shweta V., Delhi 835. Shyam Agarwal, New Delhi 836. Shyam Divan, Delhi 837. Siddhanth Kochar, Delhi 838. Siddharth 839. Siddhartha Dave, Delhi 840. Siddharth Manohar, Delhi 841. Siddharth Mishra 842. Siddharth Rajeevan 843. Siddharth Satija, Delhi 844. Siddharth Seem, Delhi 845. Sidharth Kamat 846. Sija Nair 847. Sima Gulati 848. Simon Benjamin, Delhi

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849. Sindhu V., Bengaluru 850. Siraj 851. Sithara Suresh Babu 852. Sivaramakrishnan, Bangalore 853. Smaran Shetty, Bengaluru 854. Smiti Sharma 855. Smriti Ravichandran, Delhi 856. Smtiti Singh, Delhi 857. Sneha, Mumbai 858. Sneha Mukherjee, Delhi 859. Snigdhaneel Satpathy 860. Soma Singh, Mumbai 861. Somil Kumar 862. Sonakshi Malhan, Delhi 863. Sonia J.M. Shad 864. Soumya Ranjan Das, Delhi 865. Soutik Banerjee, High Court of Delhi 866. Sowjhanya Shankaran 867. Spandan Biswal, Delhi 868. Sreerupa Chowdhury, Kolkata 869. Srikanth 870. Stephen Pereira 871. Stuti Shah, Bangalore 872. Subhankar Pasalapudi, Bangalore 873. Subhash, Delhi 874. Subhro Prokas Mukherjee, Delhi 875. Suchitra Ramani, Mumbai 876. Suhail Rashid Bhat 877. Suhas Baliga, Bangalore 878. Sukriti Goel 879. Sumeet Kaur, Bengaluru 880. Sumita Hazarika, Delhi 881. Sunit Kumar Mondal, Supreme Court of India 882. Suraj Prakash, Delhi 883. Suraj Sanap, Bombay 884. Surbhi 885. Surbhi, Mumbai 886. Suresh Rajeshwar, Mumbai 887. Suroor Mander 888. Suruchi Suri 889. Surya Binoy, High Court of Kerala 890. Susan Abraham, High Court of Bombay 891. Sushil Bajaj, Delhi 892. Suswagata Roy, Delhi

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893. Swapna Easwaramoorthy, Bangalore 894. Swapnil Gupta, Delhi 895. Swati M. 896. Swati Ram 897. Swati Singh, Delhi 898. Swati Singh, Mumbai 899. Sweta Rajan, Bangalore 900. Syed Jafar Alam, Delhi 901. Syed Mujtaba Athar, High Court of Delhi 902. Syed Tabeer Riyaz. Delhi 903. T.P.S. Harsha, Hyderabad 904. T. Srinivasa Murthy, Delhi 905. Tahini Bhushan 906. Tahir Ashraf Siddiqui 907. Talib Mustafa, High Court of Patna 908. Tanima Kishore, Delhi 909. Tanmay, Bangalore 910. Tanuja Aundhe, Mumbai 911. Tanuj Kalia, Chandigarh 912. Tanvee Nandan 913. Tanya Aggarwal 914. Tarang Gupta, Delhi 915. Taruna Arora 916. Tasneem Deo, Delhi 917. Tejinder Singh Sudan, Chandigarh 918. Thankachan V.P. 919. Thulasi K. Raj, Delhi 920. Torsha Sarkar 921. Trisha, Mumbai 922. Trisha Chandran, Bangalore 923. Trishna Menon, Delhi 924. Tulika Chikker, Delhi 925. Tushad Kakalia, Mumbai 926. Tushar Bhushan, Delhi 927. Tushar Mehta, Delhi 928. Twinkle Jain 929. Udayaditya Banerjee 930. Uday Bedi, Delhi 931. Uday Singh Chopra, Delhi 932. Udian, Delhi 933. Urfee Roomi, Delhi 934. Urvashi Barman, Delhi 935. Urvash Vashisht 936. Utkarsh Khare

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937. Utkarsh Mishra, Delhi 938. Utsav Saxena, Delhi 939. Uttara P.V. 940. Vadhana Bhaskar, Chennai 941. Vaishnavi Bhaskaran 942. Vanshika Mohta, Delhi 943. Vanya Chhabra 944. Varsha S., Bangalore 945. Varun Chopra 946. Varun Krishnan 947. Vasishta, Hyderabad 948. Vasudha Sharma, Delhi 949. Vasundhara Majithia 950. Vatsala Kumar, Delhi 951. Veera Mahuli 952. Vidhisha Ambade, Mumbai 953. Vijayant Singh, Delhi 954. Vijay Hiremath, Mumbai 955. Vikash Singh, Delhi 956. Vikas Mahendra, Bangalore 957. Vikramaditya, Delhi 958. Vinayak Pant, Delhi 959. Vinay Joy, Bengaluru 960. Vinay Venugopal Nair, Bengaluru 961. Vineeta Tekwani 962. Vineet Sirohi, Kurukshetra 963. Vinerjeet kaur, Delhi 964. Viraj Shelatkar 965. Viresh B. Saharya, Delhi 966. Vishakh Ranjit 967. Vishal Rattan Lamba, Chandigarh 968. Vishal Shrivastava, Delhi 969. Vishal Sinha, Delhi 970. Vishnu Babu 971. Vishwajith Sadananda, Bengaluru 972. Vrinda Aggarwal 973. Vrinda Grover 974. Vrindam Nagpal 975. W.R. Khan, Delhi 976. Wamika Trehan, Delhi 977. Warisha Farasat, Delhi 978. Waseem S. Ahmed, Delhi 979. Yash Anand 980. Yashaswini Mittal

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981. Yashna Mehta, Delhi 982. Yash Srivastava 983. Yash Vijay, Delhi 984. Z. Jacob 985. Zahra Aziz, Delhi 986. Zaid Drabu, Delhi 987. Zaman Ali, Mumbai 988. Zeeshan Adnan Mahmood, Hyderabad 989. Zeeshan Hashmi 990. Zia Ahmed 991. Ziauddin Sherkar, Pune