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Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal won the election and was elected as the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association on Thursday, May 16. 

 

Besides Sibal, senior advocates Adish C Aggarwala, Pradeep Kumar Rai, Priya Hingorani, and advocates Tripurari Ray and Neeraj Srivastava were contestants for the post, where Sibal secured 1,066 votes while Rai got over 650 votes, as per the sources. 

 

A Harvard Law School graduate, Sibal was the additional solicitor general of India during 1989-90. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1983.

 

Between 1995 and 2002, the former minister in the Congress-led UPA government served three times as SCBA president. 

 

The apex court had earlier directed that some posts in the executive committee of the SCBA be reserved for women members. 

 

A bench of justices Surya Kant and K V Vishwanathan had said it was of the view that the SCBA is a premier institution and is an integral part of the highest judicial forum of the country. 

 

It had directed that there shall be reservations for women members of the Bar. 

 

The bench had said in the upcoming 2024-2025 SCBA polls, the post of treasurer of the executive committee be reserved for women.