The Bar Council of Delhi (DBC) has elected advocate KK Manan as chairman and advocate Amit Sharma as vice chairman, both uncontested, to respectively replace advocates Ram Singh Chauhan and Rakesh Sherawat on Wednesday. Newly and controversially appointed DBC secretary and former DBC vice chairman V...

The battle for Delhi Bar Council executive posts between chairman RS Chauhan and former vice chairman and currently disputed secretary Vijay Sondhi, has entered a new stage.

The Bar Council of Delhi’s (BCD) chairman RS Chauhan accused Luthra & Luthra litigation partner and former BCD vice chairman Vijay Sondhi of trying to obstruct the BCD from initiating disciplinary proceedings against Luthra, which Sondhi denied in a 2 June letter to Chauhan as “frivolous, bald and baseless”.

The DBC’s secretary Murari Tiwari, whom former DBC vice chairman Vijay Sondhi had allegedly replaced on 13 May, today alleged that Sondhi’s claim was false, and that he is still continuing as secretary.

The Bar Council of (DBC), which yesterday appointed former vice chairman Vijay Sondhi as secretary, will meet on Monday to reconstitute its election committee, which will select a new chairman, vice chairman and secretary. The committee’s term expired on 22 March, confirmed Sondhi, adding that DBC c...

Delhi high court advocate Ram Singh Chauhan was elected today by the Delhi bar council members unanimously after previous chairman Surya Prakash Khatri stepped down.