Chandigarh, June 26 -- As many as 20 lawyers, who have been notified in the list of panel counsels to appear for the Chandigarh administration on the civil side before the Punjab and Haryana high court are relatives of politicians and former and sitting high court judges.

The list was notified late on June 24 with 59 appointed as junior panel counsels and 57 appointed as senior panel counsels. The list includes two sitting councillors of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and daughter-in-law of a former city BJP chief.

There are also a dozen odd relatives of sitting and former judges of the high court. Two of the appointed lawyers are related to the home secretary, UT, Mandeep Singh Brar and his sister, justice Lisa Gill of the Punjab an...