Tribune News Service
Saurabh Malik
Chandigarh, October 12
Justice Ritu Bahri has been appointed the acting Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha will retire on Friday.
Justice 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 practised law on the civil side and was also a Punjab MLA from 1952 to 1957. Her father, Justice Amrit Lal Bahri, retired as Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 1994.
Justice Bahri went to Carmel Convent School, Chandigarh, and did his economics (honours) from Government College for Women, Chandigarh, in 1982.
She did her law from Panjab University, Chandigarh, in 1985.
She was enrolled as an advocate in 1986 with Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana and started practice in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
She was appointed assistant advocate general, Haryana, in 1992. Thereafter, she was appointed 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.
