CHANDIGARH: Justice Ritu Bahri has been appointed as the acting Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha would retire tomorrow.
Justic Bahri was born on October 11, 1962, at Jalandhar and belongs to a family of illustrious lawyers. Her great grand-father late Karam Chand Bahri was a well known lawyer of his times on the civil side. Her grand-father late Som Dutt Bahri also practiced Law on the civil side and was also Member Legislative Assembly, Punjab, from 1952 to 1957.
Her father Justice Amrit Lal Bahri retired as Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court in the year 1994. Justic Bahri went to Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, and graduation in Economics (Hons) from Government College for Women, Chandigarh in 1982.
She did her law from Punjab University, Chandigarh, in the year 1985.
She was enrolled as an advocate in the year 1986 with Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana and started practice in Punjab and Haryana High Court. She was appointed as Assistant Advocate General, Haryana, in March 1992. Thereafter, she was appointed as Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, in August 1999 and Senior Advocate General, Haryana, in December 2009. While representing Haryana, she handled several cases relating to service matters, land acquisition, taxation, revenue, labour and MACT cases. She was elevated as Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on August 16, 2010.