New Delhi, Apr 9 (Agency) Advocate Surya Prakash Khatri has been unanimously elected as the Chairman, and Advocate Rajesh Mishra has been appointed as Honorary Secretary of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) Advocate Sanjeev Nasiar, has been appointed as Vice Chairman, Advocate Rajesh Mishra has been appointed as Secretary BCD, and Advocate Ved Prakash Sharma as the representative of BCD Surya Prakash Khatri was enrolled as an advocate in 1990. He is a practising advocate of civil/criminal both sides in the Delhi High Court and district courts of Delhi.
Khatri was elected as the Honorary secretary of BCD in 1998, and 2000-2003. He was elected unopposed as the Vice Chairman from 2006-2008 later and he was elected unopposed as the Chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi in 2013-2014. He was also an elected member of the Executive Committee of Delhi University. He is admired both as an advocate and also as a favorite leader among the Bar. He also contested Delhi Assembly elections as BJP candidate in 2008. Advocate Rajesh Mishra was elected as the secretary of BCD in 2009 now again he has been appointed as the Secretary of the Bar Council of Delhi. Mishra has been practising as an Advocate in the Delhi High Court since 2002. Apart from being an independent counsel, he is empanelled as a Senior Standing Counsel for the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs in Delhi High Court and a Central Government. Counsel (Senior Panel) in the Delhi High Court. He is also a Certified Mediator at Samadhan of Delhi High Court. Sanjeev Nasiar was elected twice as Additional Secretary Delhi Bar Association (DBA) from 1997 to 2000, thrice as Honorary Secretary of DBA from 2003 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2012, and became the President of the Delhi Bar Association from 2014 to 2017 and 2019 to 2022. Nasiar was elected as a member of the Bar Council of Delhi in 2018 and became its Co-Chairman from 2020 to 2022.
Presently he is Vice Chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi, continuing his pursuit for the welfare & betterment of the legal fraternity. He is actively engaged in the AAM Aadmi Party activities and had arranged the current protest by Lawyers against the ED’s act to arrest Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Ved Prakash Sharma is a noted lawyer on the civil side in Delhi High Court and District Courts of Delhi. He started his practice in 1978 as a trial court lawyer and made a significant mark in this field of law practice. He was elected President of the Delhi Bar Association thrice in 2001-2002,2002-2003 and 2006-2008. He has been a member of the Bar Council of Delhi continuously since 2003 and was its Chairman in 2009-2010. Mr Sharma was elected to the Bar Council of India in 2018 and became its Co-chairman in 2019, in which position he presently continues. He is a member of the Executive Council of National Law School University of India, Bengaluru, and NLU, Delhi, and takes a keen interest in ensuring that the standard of Indian Legal Education continues gaining noticeable excellence and stays in competition with world-class legal educational institutions. The Bar Council of Delhi is an autonomous statutory body constituted under the Advocates Act, of 1961. It enjoys varied powers, functions, and duties. It is mandatory for a person who wants to practice as a lawyer to enroll with the respective State Bar Council. Every state has its own Bar Council. Presently there are more than 1, 46,000 advocates registered as members with BCD making it the largest Bar Council in the Country.