Supreme Court Invites Public Feedback on 357 Senior Advocate Designation Applications; Full List Released

April 10, 2026 : The Supreme Court of India has commenced the next phase of its 2026 Senior Advocate designation process by inviting suggestions and views from stakeholders on a total of 357 applications received for conferment of the prestigious designation.

As per the notice dated April 10, 2026 issued by the Committee for Designation of Senior Advocates (CDSA), the Court had initially invited applications through notifications issued in February 2026, fixing March 9, 2026 as the last date. During this period, 293 advocates applied. Subsequently, upon requests from members of the Bar, the deadline was extended till April 2, 2026, leading to the submission of an additional 64 applications, taking the total number to 357.

The CDSA has now invited suggestions, objections, and views from stakeholders specifically with respect to the additional applicants, in terms of the 2026 guidelines governing designation. These inputs, along with supporting material, will be placed before the Full Court for final consideration. The last date for submission of views is April 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM, after which no submissions will be entertained.

The designation of Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court remains a mark of distinction, based on professional standing, integrity, and expertise at the Bar. The present exercise represents a crucial step before final evaluation by the Full Court.

As per Annexure ‘X’ and ‘Y’ of the notice, the following advocates have applied for designation:

Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, Mr. Chandan Kumar, Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, Dr. Vivek Sharma, Mr. Vijai Pratap Singh, Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, Mr. Vishwanathan Venkataraman Iyer, Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, Mr. Manoj Kumar Mishra, Mr. Alok Yadav, Mr. Hari Om (Maratha), Dr. Jai Prakash Dhanda, Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Mr. Saurabh Ajay Gupta, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma, Mr. Rajeev Kumar Bansal, Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Mr. Vinod Kumar, Mrs. Aparna Jha, Mr. Javed Rafiyuddin Shaikh, Mr. Amol Sudhir Chitale, Mr. Ankur Prakash, Mr. Subhasish Bhowmick, Mr. Rakesh Kalla, Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Singh, Mr. Kailash Pandey, Mr. Soumitra Ghose Chaudhuri, Mr. Mukesh Kumar (Giri), Mr. Rahul Sharad Chitnis, Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh, Mr. Ashwani Dubey, Mr. Satya Kumar Srivastava, Dr. M. Venkata Krishna Murthy, Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, Mr. Rakesh Uttamchandra Upadhyay, Mr. Jasbir Singh (Malik), Mr. Atul Jha, Mr. Ameet Siingh, Mr. T. Srinivasa Murthy, Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Mr. Ajit Pudussery, Mr. Nageswara Reddy Guvvala, Mr. Shishir Kumar Saxena, Mr. Pranab Kumar Mullick, Mr. Surjadipta Seth, Mr. Tripurari Ray, Mr. Satya Prakash, Mr. Vinay Garg, Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Mr. C.S. Nagesh, Mr. Tanmaya Agarwal, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Mr. Nachiket Anil Dave, Mr. Avijit Roy, Mr. Partha Sil, Mr. Rohan Thawani, Mr. Jatinder Kumar Sethi, Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, Dr. P.V. Amarnadh Prasad Satyanarayana, Ms. Shoba Ramamoorthy, Mr. Vikas Upadhyay, Mrs. Kiran Bala Sahay, Mr. Vikas Bansal, Mr. Ranbir Singh Yadav, Mrs. Pragati Neekhra, Mr. K.L. Janjani, Mr. Suresh Chandra Tripathy, Mr. Makarand Dnyaneshwar Adkar, Ms. Radha Rangaswamy, Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Mr. Anil Hooda, Ms. Rukhmini Bobde, Dr. Indra Pratap Singh, Mr. Nitin Jain, Ms. Hervinder Chowdhury, Mr. Amol B. Karande, Mr. Rajesh Kumar Gautam, Mr. Atul Sharma, Mr. D.L. Chidananda, Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Mr. Arjun Kumar De, Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mudgal, Mr. Vipin Nair, Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, Mr. Phatick Chandra Das, Mrs. Gouri Karuna Das Mohanti, Dr. Ramesh Rangnathrao Deshpande, Mr. Ajay Choudhary, Mr. Arjun Garg, Mr. Snehasish Mukherjee, Mrs. Prernaa Singh, Ms. Purti Gupta, Mr. Abdul Rasheed Qureshi, Mr. Vikrant Yadav, Mr. Manu Shanker Mishra, Mr. Harbansh Kumar Chaturvedi, Mr. Krishna Bhushan Upadhyay, Mr. S. Ravi Shankar, Mr. Mridul Manu, Mr. Praveen Chaturvedi, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar Sinha, Mr. Dev Prakash Bhardwaj, Mr. V. Lakshmi Kumaran, Mr. Shail Kumar Dwivedi, Ms. A. Sumathi, Mr. Narendra Kumar, Mr. Radhashyam Jena, Mr. Shankar Chillarge, Mrs. Bhakti Pasrija, Mr. Deen Dayal Purohit, Mr. Abhishek Chaudhary, Mr. Vikas Mehta, Mr. Nikhil Majithia, Mr. N.D. Brahma Raju, Mr. Altaf Hussain, Mr. Jayprakash Bansilal Somani, Mr. Varun Kumar Chopra, Mrs. Madhumita Bhattacharjee, Mr. Surender Sinha, Mr. Chandra Shekhar, Mr. Ajay Bansal, Mr. Surinder Kumar Gupta, Mr. Smarhar Singh, Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, Mrs. Prabha Swami, Mr. Garvesh Kabra, Mr. Sunder Lal Gupta, Mr. Ajay Veer Singh, Dr. Vipin Gupta, Mr. Prakash Kumar Singh, Ms. Bharti Tyagi, Mr. Adarsh Upadhyay, Mr. R. Krishnaamorthi, Mr. Bhupendra Pratap Singh, Mr. Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Mr. Aditya Kumar Choudhary, Mr. Om Prakash Misra, Ms. Indu Kaul, Dr. G. Sivabalamurugan, Mr. Shree Prakash Sinha, Mr. Sudhanshu Shekhar Pandey, Ms. Praveena Gautam, Ms. Manita Verma, Mr. Md. Shahid Anwar, Mr. Sanchar Anand, Mr. Sandeep Narain, Dr. Sasmit Patra, Mr. Shish Pal Laler, Mr. P.B.A. Srinivasan, Mr. Divyesh Pratap Singh, Ms. Shahrukh Alam, Mr. Saket Sikri, Mr. Pradeep Aggarwal, Mr. Shekhar Prit Jha, Mr. Shivam Singh, Mr. Rohit Sharma, Mr. Charan Lal Sahu, Mr. Mukund Yashvantrao Deshmukh, Mr. Ninad Laud, Mr. Ajay Veer Pundir, Mr. Alok Sangwan, Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Mr. Parmanand Pandey, Mr. Vikrant Rana, Mr. Navin Prakash, Mr. Daya Krishan Sharma, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Mr. Nitin Sangra, Mr. Neeraj Shekhar, Mr. Khaladkar Chinmoy Arvind, Mr. Jayant Mohan, Mr. Hafiz Md. Atiqur Rahman, Mr. Anand Nandan, Mr. Amit Pawan, Dr. Charu Mathur, Mr. Kuldip Singh, Dr. Sudhir Bisla, Mr. Jayesh K. Unnikrishnan, Mr. M.K. Sankarankutty, Mr. Anil Kumar Mishra, Mr. Anubhav Kumar, Mr. Siddharth Batra, Mr. Manish Mohan, Mr. Viresh Bahadur Saharya, Mr. Surya Kant, Mr. Pardeep Gupta, Mr. Sanjay Mani Tripathi, Mrs. Bharathi Raju, Mrs. Kumud Lata Das, Mrs. Gunjan Sharma, Mr. Vivek Narayan Sharma, Mr. Atul Babasaheb Dakh, Mr. Ajay Marwah, Mr. Subedar Singh, Mr. Madan Mohan Kashyap, Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, Mr. G. Prakash, Mr. Harish Pandey, Mr. Rajbahadur Rajmani Chandrachud, Mr. Rajiv Shankar Dvivedi, Mr. Abhigya Kushwah, Mr. Subodh Kumar Pathak, Mr. Manish Vashishtha, Mr. Bijan Ghosh, Mr. Ritesh Khatri, Mrs. Reena Singh, Mr. Naveen Kumar, Mr. Varun Thakur, Mr. Shamik Sanjanwala, Mr. Kshitish Bikarmia, Mrs. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Mr. Yalakala Rajagopala Rao, Mr. S. Gnanasambandan, Mr. Ajay Pal, Mr. Pati Raj Yadav, Ms. Pareena Swarup, Mr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Mr. Gaurav Kejriwal, Mr. C. Paramasivam, Mr. Aftab Ali Khan, Mr. Anil Panwar, Mr. Majithia Ajay Gurbax Rai, Mr. Tribhuvan Narain Singh, Mr. K.V. Mohan, Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Amit Sharma, Mr. Ajay Agarwal, Mr. R.K. Rathore, Mr. Brijesh Kalappa Palachanda, Ms. Sharmila Upadhyay, Mr. Sachin Gupta, Mrs. Reena Asthana, Mr. Biju V.K., Mr. Atul Kumar, Mr. Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Dr. Paul George Giri, Mr. Anup Kumar, Mr. Mohit Paul, Mr. Sudarshan Rajan, Mr. Ranvir Singh, Dr. Jayesh Gaurav, Mr. Sudhir Kumar Gupta, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Mr. Sunder Khatri, Mr. Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, Mr. Satinder Singh, Ms. Savitri Pandey, Mr. Ravi Shankar Kumar, Mr. Jitendra Singh Bhasin, Mrs. P. Revathy, Mr. Samir Ali Khan, Mr. Mohan Babu Agarwal, Mr. Brijesh Kumar Gupta, Mr. Bishwajit Dubey, Mr. Vishrov Mukerjee, Dr. Surat Singh, Mr. Arijit Maitra, Mr. Sachin Patil, Mr. Subhasish Mohanty, Ms. Sampa Sengupta Ray, Mr. Abhay Prakash Sahay Lalan, Mr. Avinash Sharma, Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, Mr. Somiran Sharma, Mr. Anand, Mr. Rabin Majumder, Mr. Rajendra Sahu, Mr. Manish Kumar Saran, Mr. Anand Varma, Mr. Mahesh Kumar Tiwari, Dr. Sandeep Singh, Mr. Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha, Ms. Shamshravish Rein, Mr. Anuj Prakaash, Dr. Manoj Gorkela, Ms. Maheravish Rein, Mr. Joydeep Mazumdar, Mr. Hrishikesh Baruah, Mr. Virendar Parkash Sharma, Mr. Ashim Sood, Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, Mr. Sreegesh M.K., Mrs. Shilpa Chohan, Mr. Vakul Vardhan Gautam, Mr. Kamlendra Mishra, Mr. T. Mahipal, Ms. Sangeeta Joshi, Mr. Arup Banerjee, Mr. Md. Izhar Alam, Mr. Ajay Kumar Srivastav, Mr. Vivek Gupta, Mr. Kovilan Poongkuntran P R, Mr. S. Sadasiva Reddy, Mr. Dharvendra Pratap Singh Yadav, Mr. Keshav Chandra Thakur, Mr. Shishir Pinaki, Mr. Tarun Dua, Mr. Girish Chand Tyagi, Ms. Girija Krishan Varma, Mr. Amit Pai, Dr. Vijay Kumar Shukla, Ms. Shobha Gupta, Mr. Anil Nag, Dr. Mukesh Kumar Ravi, Mr. Rajat Sinha Roy, Mr. Kumar Parimal, Ms. Diksha Rai, Mr. Syed Abdul Haseeb, Mr. Anirban Bhattacharya, Mr. C.R. Jaya Sukin, Mr. Subas Ray, Mr. Kumar Kartikay, Mr. P. Venkat Reddy, Mr. Jatinder Cheema, Mr. Sunil Kumar Jain, Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Bhatnagar, Ms. Vrinda Grover, Mrs. Kamakshi Singh Mehlwal, Ms. Mamta Shrivastava, Mr. Bharat Bhushan, Mr. Shiv Ram Sharma, Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, Dr. Shamsuddin, Ms. Prachi Mishra, Mr. Omprakash Ajit Singh Parihar, Mr. Yadav Narender Singh, Mrs. Kiran Bhardwaj, Mr. Jai Bhagwan, Mr. Mohammad Yunus Malik, Mr. Somvir Singh Deswal, Dr. Ajay Prakash Singh, Mr. Manish Tewari, Mr. Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Mr. Sanjay Jain, Ms. Alka Agrawal, Mr. Radhakrishna Shivaram Hegde, Mr. Nitin Tambwekar, Ms. Prachi Bajpai, Mr. Umesh Babu Chaurasia, Mr. Ritesh Agrawal, Mr. Pawan Kumar Bahl, Mr. Vineet Bhagat, Mrs. Sneha Kalita, Mr. Sudhansu Palo, Mr. Rajendra Singh Chauhan, Mr. Satyajit Ashok Desai, Mr. Ajay K. Agrawal, Mr. Mullapudi Rambabu, Mr. Satish Pandey, Mr. Mata Prasad Singh, Mr. Saurav Agrawal, Mr. Kaushal Yadav and Ms. K.V. Bharathi Upadhyaya.

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