Association Profile
The history of legal profession at Siliguri revealed that one Late Hara Sundar Majumdar and one Bhagat Dutta Chowdhury belonging to local community used to handle the legal matters, when its administrative Head Quarter was at Hansqua. The history also revealed that the present Siliguri town, consisting of five agricultural jotes namely Gazal Singh, Khalai Singh, Nepurbighar, Dhardaria and Krishna Dayal under the Zamindari of Baikunthapur Raja of Jalpaiguri in Mouza Dabgram including the village of Siliguri, came into existence in the year 1907.
Late Surendra Nath Bhattacharjee, pleader came to Siliguri and joined the legal profession at Siliguri and he was then the only qualified legal practitioner. Subsequently many other qualified lawyers like Laxmi Narayan Majumdar, Haridas Majumdar, Bireswar Majumdar joined the profession at Siliguri. A large number of lawyers were also migrated from East Pakistan [Now Bangladesh] after the partition of Bengal in 1947. Although old immigrants and many other lawyers are no more with us, but I am proud to say that one of the said immigrants namely Sri Swadesh Ranjan Sarkar, our senior most member, who joined the legal profession as a probationer in the year 1949, is still doing his legal profession actively with us.
Our member Late Abani Nath Bhattacharjee was used to be recognized as a reputed Advocate of Bengal. It is also an history that our member Late Anandamoy Bhattacharjee, practicing in the sub-divisional and district courts was appointed directly as a Judge of the Sikkim High Court and subsequently became the Chief Justice of Calcutta and Bombay High Courts. Some of the members of our Bar have also held the constitutional legal office as the Advocate General and some held high office in the State of Sikkim and also in the Bar Council of West Bengal. Our member Sri Arun Kumar Sarkar has also held the office of the Chairman of the Bar Council of West Bengal. Some 27 members have also been appointed in the State Judicial Service and 33 have been appointed as the Notary Public by the Central and the State Government. Our member Sri Swapan Kr. Sarkar previously also hold the office of the Chairman of the Siliguri Municipality, now Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
Our member Smt. Gangotri Dutta also adorned the chair of Mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Siliguri and successfully completed her tenure for the year 2009-2014. Our member Sri Arindam Mitra and Sri Samiran Sutradhar also successfully discharged his duties as a Mayor in Council and Borough Chairman of Siliguri Municipal Corporation during 2009-2014.
Our member Sri Goutam Deb is now holding the office of the Hon’ble Minister of the Department of North Bengal Development, another member namely Sri Nantu Paul is holding the office of the Leader of Opposition of Sililguri Muncipal Corporation , Sri Kamal Agarwal is holding the office of the Mayor in Council.
We celebrated our centenary programme under the leadership of our veteran member Sri Swadesh Ranjan Sarkar, in the year 2008-09. We have our own building premises constructed by our own fund from time to time to provide the sitting accommodation to our members and that we have also the facilities of canteen and Xerox for our members provided in our building.
We have also commenced our e-library for the first time in our State with four nos. of computer and 22 nos. of e-journals with internet facilities since 15th August, 2010 onwards from which our members are continuously getting the support for their legal profession.