Hyderabad: P. Niroop, a native of Telangana state and a practising advocate in the Supreme Court, was designated as senior advocate by the apex court on Saturday. Niroop is the first lawyer from Telangana to be designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court.
Niroop is the son of late P. Ramachandra Reddy, an eminent lawyer, former Speaker and minister in combined Andhra Pradesh. He belongs to Medak district. After enrolling in the bar council in 1985, he practised in the mofussil court of Sangareddy and then went to the Supreme Court.
He hails from the chambers of V.R. Reddy, (former advocate-general, Andhra Pradesh and later the additional solicitor-general of India), and Gopal Subramaniam, (former solicitor-general of India).
Niroop also represented the state of Goa in the Supreme Court and other fora in Delhi for the years 2013 to 2016 as their senior standing counsel and also as the additional advocate-general, for the state of Meghalaya in Delhi and Shillong for 2017-2018.
He has 30 years of standing at the Supreme Court bar, and 31 reported judgments to his credit on sensitive subjects of national importance, in the areas of private international law, environmental law, infrastructural law, land and agricultural laws and constitutional laws.
He also appeared before the Telangana High Court on behalf of social activists in PILs challenging the Telangana government’s decision to demolish Irram Manzil to build Secretariat.
Two former judges of the erstwhile AP High Court also designated as senior advocates. Apart from Niroop, the Supreme Court also designated former Chief Justice of Patna High Court L. Narasimha Reddy (Warangal) and former Judge of Andhra Pradesh High Court Naushad Ali as senior advocates.
