New Delhi, March 24 -- Senior Advocates N Hariharan and Sacchin Puri were elected president and vice-president of the Delhi High Court Bar Association, the results of which were declared on Sunday.

Mr Puri created history by emerging as the first-ever candidate to secure more than 4,500 votes and won by a whopping margin of 2,620 votes.

Mr Hariharan, replaces senior advocate Mohit Mathur and will now lead the bar. He secured 2967 votes and defeated senior advocate Kirti Uppal by a margin of 87 votes.

Senior Advocate N. Hariharan has been in the criminal law practice for the last 34 years. A Faculty of Law alumnus, he was enrolled in 1987. He was designated as a Senior Advocate in 2013.

Mr. Puri's opponents, advocate Shyam Sharma and sen...