A top law firm has terminated one of its partners who was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) for the sexual assault of his own minor daughter.

Senior leadership at the law firm confirmed to Bar & Bench that the accused partner's services have been terminated with immediate effect.

A first information report (FIR) was registered on February 2 this year under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act, after the mother of the child filed a complaint against her husband.

The mother alleged that her husband, the child’s father, repeatedly subjected their six-year-old daughter to sexual assault by touching her private parts and by making the child touch his private parts whenever the girl was alone with him.

The accused then approached a special POCSO court in Mumbai for anticipatory bail.

The child’s mother opposed the plea and stressed the seriousness of the allegations. She argued that the accused, being both a legal practitioner and the child’s father, could misuse his position to influence witnesses or derail the process of law. She also argued that the the victim is of “too tender age” to even understand the seriousness of what was done to her.

On March 16, the court granted the accused anticipatory bail, reasoning that the investigation could proceed without taking him into custody.

The order noted that since the registration of the FIR, the police had sufficient opportunity to investigate without arresting the accused. It recorded that the investigating officer had never sought custodial interrogation and had instead issued notice to secure his presence. The judge observed that any medical examination of the accused could be carried out without placing him in custody.

The court also noted underlying matrimonial disputes between the spouses, which it said would be considered at the trial stage rather than at the anticipatory bail stage.

While granting anticipatory bail, the special court imposed conditions restraining the accused lawyer from contacting or pressuring the victim, the complainant or any prosecution witnesses and from making any threats or inducements.

He was further directed to cooperate with the investigation and not leave India without prior court permission.

An appeal against the order, filed by the mother of the child, is expected to come up for hearing before the Bombay High Court soon.

Any idea who could this top law firm partner be?

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Hello. I will be an incoming 4th year at WBNUJS. My rank and GPA is trashy asf partly because i despised doing law for the first two years and partly because i couldn't understand jackshit even when i legitimately tried(read: score decent marks). Don't have much extracurriculars either. Can someone who has been in the same shoes or knows someone who has or just want to give their two cents on how do i make myself genuinely employable?I l am interested in technology and IP laws, banking and insolvency and competition law. Apart from publications, anything else to compensate?

I’m an SA at a Tier 1 law firm and there has been a noticeable wave of exits across teams and seniorities recently. Combined with underwhelming bonuses and the annual MP address being rescheduled, it has created a fair amount of unease among associates.

It genuinely makes me wonder, is this just a cyclical correction that large firms go through every decade or so, or is the traditional “inverted pyramid” law firm structure beginning to show cracks?

Speaking to News18, Dave said the Governor would be justified in removing her from office immediately.

“I think Mamata Banerjee’s stand, that she will not resign, is completely unconstitutional and dishonest, and the Governor would be well advised to dismiss her immediately because this is completely unprecedented and unacceptable," Dave said.

https://www.news18.com/india/west-bengal-election-result-2026-mamata-banerjee-refusal-to-resign-bengal-constitutional-clash-tmc-bjp-ws-l-10076502.html

"It is an insult and she deserves to be taught a lesson... I'm glad she did this. I'm glad that this is her attitude so that the Governor can dismiss her instead of her gracefully resigning... the Governor must formally dismiss her because she holds office at his pleasure," Jethmalani said. "If she insists on sticking like a lemming to her chair, then the Governor must unceremoniously dismiss her. I would like to say, given this conduct, kick her out," he added.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kick-her-out-mahesh-jethmalani-on-mamata-banerjees-wont-resign-move-11454098/amp/1

He's attained a position of legitimacy and image of sensitivity with the offices he held but he's always been the kind to do something like this. Completely unsurprised esp having witnessed his rash conduct during events he's headed. People aren't who they seem to be. There's a near zero chance a first year girl would get to see that side of him like inside the BH.

Why stop at "A bhaiya" even on an anonymous public forum? Call him A uncle, A sir also no.

I don't believe this message is a genuine first year student (F) for a second. More likely to be our A bhaiya himself than anything else.

In case it is a first year, you've subscribed to the wrong parts of NUJS, man. Didi/bhaiya culture, justifying violence because someone felt bad they got turned down, this really isn't what this college is about – although I can't blame you for having felt that way.

Sweet and welcoming seniors were always the ones to look out for during our early years too, because a lot of the times these people were nicer and sweeter to juniors because nobody in their batch liked them.

But that is my point na, he did not hide. I am not saying he did not make a mistake, but he is not such a bad person as people here are making him out to be. And this is not my experience alone, a lot of my friends (both genders) will also voucher for this. If he was not good at heart why would he have owned up when there was no proof?

Maybe Asol Poriborton will change things now? Several folks avoided it because the system was already gamed to favour certain apparatchiks. Don't just blame the politicians since tere are other venerable"apolitical" players. Some meritorious or otherwise candidates couldn't game an already rigged process in their favour and left midway or didn't try again due to losses suffered in earlier attempts. NKC got lucky with repeated attempts (since the days of MPS). A big section got rattled by successive exposures by a combative SJA during 2014-2019. These potentials needed surety that IOUs can be encashed and trafficked without inconvenient inquiries etc. And once that was secured again by Lord Taluk, we were blessed with NKC.

Beyond the usual optics, bells and whistles of "development for student and academic welfare" whether it will be business as usual under Nandi and BJP remains to be seen.

NLIU student here,

bro the ragging culture is pretty much dead now, the new first years lived in a new hostel, the second years lived outside the campus, no one since our batch has partaken in much ragging per-se, its pretty chill nowadays and honestly, its fine that way, the sir and ma'am culture is honestly taken a little too seriously by third party viewers, just substitute it with bhaiya didi, its not that deep honestly, a lot of us just ask our juniors to call us by our names, its pretty subjective.

NLIU otherwise is pretty chill, good batches coming up, our 2nd years, the 27' batch is pretty good, our batch is polarising but pretty decent, our juniors are a little circumspect though, the face value of NLIU's "culture" has caused a major downturn in the crowd coming here, which seems like a problem to me.

Otherwise, NLIU, with our alumni base is all you need tbh, I interned in King Stubb and a couple of other firms which should've been out of my reach, but due to our alumni, it was seamless.

Nashe hain, but thats symmetric across law colleges in general.

honestly that's how its supposed to be, in places like RGNUL AND NUSRL people take this so seriously and have such bad ego issues over this. you literally havent achieved anything at all and even if you have why should other people call you 'sir' or 'ma'am' in the name of professionalism, most of these people have nothing going on in their lives and all they do is sit around with juniors and talk as if they know it all.

There is not a lot of ragging around but some seniors do have a slight attitude which if you ask me personally I find it annoying specifically the immediate seniors most of them have this sense of pride by just being a senior which tbh I personally fail to understand. NUSRL, Ranchi has one of the worst cultures possible personally experienced it for 10-15 days just horrible, male seniors and creepy and degrading females are the same, they recently beat up a first year because he answered back and they are proud of it and call it 'professional

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Any insights anyone, what’s happening in CAM? Shaneen also quit…such a senior practitioner. WTF !

https://www.barandbench.com/news/corporate/cam-disputes-partner-shaneen-parikh-resigns

Whereas I think I’m a decent legal researcher as a second-year law student, how can I strengthen my skills further? I’ve already worked on most of the generic things familiarity with SCC and Manupatra, reading judgments, etc. Most of the time, I do end up finding something useful, but it takes me considerably longer to find it. How can I improve and become more efficient at legal research?

Honestly no one knows. The best of the cal bar - AKM, B. Chatterjee, JKM, and SNM (who were far senior to KD) were made AGs and resigned for obvious reasons. It is to be seen if the new regime makes any of them the AG (the first 3 are very old, so unlikely). Personally i'd love to see SNM as AG again. Brilliant lawyer. Other than that, at that level of seniority, there aren't any names that would come to mind.

What is actually gonna be messed up is how the new set of lawyers for the state will handle the matters. Given the earlier tmc regime's practice of not giving proper instructions and not caring about matters pending in HC, the new set of lawyers will face a huge challenge.

Regardless, no dearth (there is, but not as bad as no one can be named) of talent in Cal HC Bar. If the BJP does its magic like it did in UP and Assam with the development of infra and economic development, Bengal would rise, and so would the work in Cal HC and the work culture, fee schedules etc would become better. The future looks postive.

In law following places could be most intellectually challenging and fulfilling purely because of the faculty they have. However everything depends on the learner whether s/he is ready to take up the challenge and commit to the academic rigour:

NLSIU / JGLS/ IIT KGP

NALSAR/ NLUD/ NUJS

DU/ BHU/ SAU/ JNU

GNLU/NLIU/NLUJ/HNLU/ RML/ RGNUL/ NUALS/CNLU

Jamia/ AMU/ SLS Pune

Listed 20 institutions in no order or ranking but any of them can develop you academically if you are committed.

Some of the institutions don’t offer 5 year law like IIT or a law degree itself like JNU but provide good research environment and ecosystem where you can utilise your full potential.

Hope this helps.

I only found one case, covering Aquilaw's relationship with Pincon, a chit fund company whose founders were convicted and jailed. Is the ED sleeping on the case? Will they revive it now? Or has the case been dropped?

Sanjay Basu vs Union Of India And Ors on 28 April, 2023
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By its order dated 11th April, 2023 the Supreme Court after setting aside that part of the impugned order by which this court declared that the petitioner would not be required to attend the office of the Enforcement Directorate was set aside and the entire application sent back to this court "to decide the main writ petition in accordance with law".

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It appears that during the search and seizure operation carried out by the Enforcement Directorate in the residence of the writ petitioner certain articles like laptop, mobile phones etc. were seized by it from his custody.

In respect of this seizure on 29th March, 2023, the said authority issued a show cause to the writ petitioner under Section 8 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. With the notice was enclosed reasons in support of it under Section 8(1) of the said Act. He was asked to file a written reply to it on or before 18th May, 2023, as to why the said articles should not be permitted to be retained by the Enforcement Directorate. In paragraph 4 of the said statement of reasons attached to the notice it was mentioned that the writ petitioner received Rs. 83.25 lakhs from Pincon Group of Companies and the firm which he runs Aquilaw received Rs. 23 lakhs. In the 4th last line of paragraph 4, it was specifically stated that the said sum received was "for providing legal assistance". However, the statement added that no official engagement letter issued by Pincon in favour of the firm or the writ petitioner could be produced or is available.

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> In the meantime the petitioner shall file a reply to the show cause notice without prejudice to his rights and contentions. The adjudicating authority under the P.M.L. Act may proceed to adjudicate whether to retain the articles or not but keep the adjudication in a sealed cover and not communicate the same pending a decision in this writ application. This is so because the validity of the whole action of the Enforcement Directorate is under challenge in the writ and prima facie only a receipt of Rs. 83 lacs by the petitioner and Rs. 23 lacs by his firm from Pincon is on record. The petitioner claims it as professional receipt.

https://indiankanoon.org/docfragment/57816064

Hi everyone. There might be many amongst you who might have impressed T1 recruiters and secured a law firm job on basis of your CV (and later interviews ofcourse). Could such people please help me by providing your CV/Resume sans(without) Name and Personal Details. I just wanted to see how such a CV looks. If possible could you mail it or the following email ID: corplawfocussed@protonmail.com .

Will be grateful to you always :) Thankss

Be sure of the work you have out in CV. have clarity on the basics. Like if M&A rattofy the companies act the provisions. CCI. FEMA. even if lets say you do not have practical experience in the FEMA atleast know the law and say you have not worked on it but i know what the law says. if you worked on any transactions and you only did like backend work - try to read the rest of the docs and what went down on the transaction to have a better idea. Mostly this has helped me to clear the interview. Also always say if you dont know something that i will get back to you i dont know this.

Hi All, i am a disputes lawyer at A2 level, having had no luck in job market for almost 8 months now. Looking for titled role openings, if you know anything helpful, please do tell. Or if you are willing to give referral somewhere please let me know. Really appreciate any insight!

Hi, I'm a 2025 grad lawyer. I recently moved from a boutique disputes team to a t1 disputes team.

I feel insecure about my knowledge, my drafting, my understanding. I feel that a 2026 grad paralegal of this firm is far better than me. I was hoping to brush up my skills while over court vacations. Please advice, would be eternally grateful.

Thank you!!