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The junior counsel is paid Rs 7,000 per case and the senior counsel gets Rs 11,000. AdvertisingIn November 2018, Suvir Sehgal, Senior Standing Counsel of the Administration, resigned from the post for “personal reasons” after remaining at the helm since July 2016. Sehgal was replaced by senior advocate Sanjeev Sharma, but he too called it quits as soon as he joined. According to the Senior Standing Counsel’s office, Chandigarh has less than 5,000 civil cases at the High Court with around 50 counsel on its panel. Advocate Pankaj Jain took over the charge of handling Chandigarh’s litigation on the civil side in December 2018 while senior advocate Randeep Singh Rai is the Special Public Prosecutor in criminal cases..