The five lawyers appointed as additional judges on October 28 took oath of office at the Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday.
The lawyers include senior advocates Vikas Suri, Jasjit Singh Bedi, son of former high court judge HS Bedi, Vinod Sharma (Bhardwaj), senior standing counsel, UT, Pankaj Jain, and Haryana additional advocate general Sandeep Moudgil.
Suri and Bhardwaj were practising mainly on civil Side. Jain was appointed senior standing counsel in December 2018, while Bedi is a known criminal lawyer. As of Moudgil, he has been associated with Haryana advocate general’s office for nearly five years.
With these appointments, the number of judges in the high court has reached 50. The names of the four lawyers were recommended for elevation on September 1 by the Supreme Court collegium and that of Sandeep Moudgil on September 29. The high court collegium had recommended their names in August 2020.