New Delhi: Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal has won the presidential elections of the Supreme Court Bar Association, securing 1066 votes and surpassing his closest contender, Senior Advocate Pradeep Rai, who received 689 votes.
The incumbent President, Senior Advocate Dr. Adish C Aggarwala, garnered 296 votes (figures are tentative).
Other contenders included Priya Hingorani, Tripurari Ray, and Neeraj Srivastava. This marks Sibal's fourth term as SCBA President, having previously held the position in 1995-96, 1997-98, and in 2001.
Kapil Sibal was the counsel for petitioners who had challenged the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 of the Constitution, in August 2019.
When the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the BJP government’s Article 370 move, Sibal posted that "some battles were fought to be lost".
Some battles are fought to be lost. For history must record the uncomfortable facts for generations to know. The right and wrong of institutional actions will be debated for years to come," Kapil Sibal posted on X - formerly known as Twitter.