More than 3,700 advocates of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday cast their vote to elect the executive body of High Court Bar Association. The result of the election would be declared on Friday after the counting of votes.
Giving details, Senior Advocate, Roshan lal Batta, chairman of the election committee, said that 3,736 advocates out of the 4,495 eligible voters cast their votes. He said that the counting would start on Friday at 10 am and the results would be announced by 4 pm
Four candidates including current incumbent, Harpreet Singh Brar, Nirbhay Garg, Tahar Singh and senior advocate VK Jain are contesting for the post of president. For the post of vice-president there are three candidates, Antar Singh Brar, Jagjot Singh lalli and Puneeta Sethi and for the post of secretary, SPS Tinna and Manish Kumar Singla are the candidates. Deepshikha Arora, Neetu Singh and Neelam Devi Choudhary are in the fray for the post of joint secretary. Advocate Bhupinderbir Singh Randhawa and Shivoy Dhir are contesting for the post of treasurer. Besides this, result for the seven posts of executive members (above ten years of practice) and ten executive members (below ten years practice) would also be announced.