Hisar District Bar Association is one of the oldest Bar Association of our Country. During the reigns of East India Company, the Hisar District Court was established in 1832. It was then affiliated to the Allahabad High Court. The First Collector of Hisar was Mr. William Brown. The Hisar District Court used to deal with all kinds of cases-civil, criminal, and revenue. For civil and criminal matters the jurisdiction of the Hisar District Court was with Ferozepur Sessions Division. It was only in 1915 that the Hisar District Court was upgraded to a Sessions Division and the Court of District and Sessions Judge was duly established at Hisar and since then the Civil and Criminal justice is under the overall control of District and Sessions Judge, Hisar. Initially, the District Bar Association, Hisar was established in the year 1870.
The building of Hisar District Court came into existence at Hisar-Delhi Road, probably in the middle of 1830. It was after a long period of 140 years when it was shifted on December 18, 1973, to its present building in the Judicial Complex situated at Rajgarh Road, Hisar. The Court Complex of District level is perhaps the biggest and magnificent one in whole of the Haryana & perhaps in the India at district level. It comprises very spacious Bar Room & Bar Library with computer facility along with Law related software and having about 25000 Books. The unique feature of the present building is that majority of Lawyers occupies a chamber. Total number of chambers (old and new) is 452. It is true that the court of Hisar came into being in or about the year 1832 but as far as the history Bar Association is concerned, it came into being in 1870. Since beginning the District Bar Association, Hisar proved its worth professionally and socially. Now this Bar Association is 155 years old. It has passed various stages of history and played a vital role in making the history.
The main purpose of District Bar Association, Hisar is to provide a forum to the practicing lawyers to improve their working conditions and safeguard their interests, helps in the smooth functioning of the court and have a good rapport with the bench and it is a matter of pride from the District Bar Association, Hisar that it almost succeeded in achieving its mission. The well-known heroes of freedom movement of the statues of Punjab Kesri Lala Lajpat Rai who was amongst the trinity of well-known freedom fighters, Lal-Bal-Paul i.e., Bal Gangadhar Tilaq and Bipin Chander Pal. Lala Lajpat Rai had been one of its leading lawyers for six years i.e., from 1886 to 1892.
Moreover, the Hisar District Bar is the bar which has given numerous parliamentarians to the state of Punjab, Haryana and the country e.g., Thakur Dass Bhargava a leading criminal lawyer of his time. Other members of the Hisar District Bar like best parliamentarian of India of his time. Other members of the Hisar District Bar like Jawahar Lal Bhargava, Sheikh Ismail, Pt. Nanak Chand Bar-at-law, Babu Jugal Kishor, Shamlal Satyagrahi, Ch. Suraj Mal, Capt. Ranjit Singh, S. Narottam Singh, Bakshi Ram Kishan, Ch. Bansi Lal, Ch. Sarup Singh, Ch. Devinder Singh, Shri Baldev Tayal, Ch. Yudhvir Singh, Ch. Jaswant Singh and Babu Gulab Singh were also the well-known political figures of the province as well as of the Nation. Apart from the politicians, the Hisar Bar can also boast of producing great Arya Samajist leaders like Lala Lajpat Rai, Pt. Lakhpat Rai, Babu Churamani, Babu Parkash Chander Malhotra, Bakhsi Ram Kishan, Shamlal Satyagrahi, Shamlal Sardana and leaders of the ruralites Ch. Lajpat Rai Sisai socialists Salig Ram Chetal and Lala Satya Narain Saraf (exiled from Bikaner State) have also have been members of this bar. It has the credit of sending good number of members to the highest professional body of lawyers i.e., Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana and India e.g., Babu Manohar Lal Gupta, Mr. Justice D.S. Lamba, Babu Sukh Dev Aggarwal, Ch. Rajpal Singh Harita were duly elected as members of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana from time to time. Moreover, the present members of the District Bar Association Hisar. Shri Jagbir Singh Dalal was not only elected thrice to the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council but also had been a members and Vice Chairman of the Bar Council of India, New Delhi.
During the emergency (1975 to 1977) a good number of Members of Hisar Bar resisted the imposition of emergency and were sent behind the bars in various District Jails for freedom of common man and for the pious cause of democracy.
The list of such members includes Sh. Baldev Tayal, Ch. Phul Singh Comrade and Pt. Jagat Sarup. The Hisar Bar has one more achievement to its members to its credit of centurion Babu Mahabir Parshad Jain (1899-2002) had been a leading lawyer of Hisar Bar for 80 years i.e. from July, 1922 to December, 2002. He Seems to be a member of the longest standing in the legal history of the country, perhaps the world. The Hisar Bar is again the rarest one which had a good number of the Bar at Law like Pt. Nanak Chand, Shri B.M. Budhwar and Miyan Jalaludin Qureshi. Some of its members Sh. D.S. Lamba, Sh. A.S. Nehra, Sh. Rakesh Jain have been elevated to the Bench as judge of the Punjab the Haryana High Court at Chandigarh and Sh. Surya Kant Sharma has been elevated to the Bench as judge of Hon’ble Supreme Court of India.
The District Bar Association Hisar has numbering about 3600 members including the women Lawyer numbering about 660. It is still taken to be one of best Bar Associations of the Country in all respects. Keeping in view the relationship of Bar and the Bench and legal luminaries and freedom fighters produced by it. It has been the brain of the Hisar and always played its positive role in making the Hisar better than in the past. Its members have been taking keen interest it the social organizations including schools, colleges, hospitals and public libraries etc.
