Anupam Mehrotra v. High Court U.P. Thru. Registrar General Prayagraj and 3 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
WRIT - C No. 11668 of 2025, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), Court No. 3, decision dated December 10, 2025, coram Shekhar B. Saraf and Rajeev Bharti, JJ. Petitioner Anupam Mehrotra (in person) versus High Court U.P. Thru. Registrar General Prayagraj and 3 others (counsel: Shishir Jain listed in cause title; Shri Vijay Dixit heard for respondent Nos.1 to 4). Subject: challenge to notification dated November 5, 2025 designating 90 Advocates as Senior Advocates. Held: designees are necessary and proper parties; ordered impleading as respondents, e-mail service of notice, counter affidavits in four weeks, rejoinder in two weeks, next listing 28th January 2026. Interim directions only; merits of the designation challenge left open. Keywords: Senior Advocate designation, Registrar General, necessary and proper parties, impleading, interim order.
What did the court decide?
Directions issued (interim): petitioner to implead the 90 designated Senior Advocates as respondents; notice on them to be served by e-mail (e-mail addresses uploaded on website); respondents including newly added respondents to file counter affidavits within four weeks and rejoinder affidavit, if any, within two weeks thereafter; matter listed for 28th January, 2026.