Criminal Litigation and Economic Offences

We undertake criminal litigation before Magistrate Courts, Sessions Courts, the High Court of Delhi, and the Supreme Court of India, handling bail, anticipatory bail, quashing of FIRs & criminal complaints, criminal revisions, appeals, discharge, framing of charge, trial proceedings, cross-examination, and final arguments, across offences relating to cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery, defamation, cybercrime, matrimonial offences, offences involving public servants, corruption-related proceedings, and disputes where civil, commercial, family, or employment issues carry criminal consequences.

Bail & anticipatory bail form a core specialisation of the Chambers. In regular bail applications, we build the case around flight risk, the possibility of evidence tampering, and the likelihood of influencing witnesses, while pressing for parity with co-accused and weighing the period of custody already undergone against the stage of investigation or trial. Anticipatory bail calls for a different approach, since it arises before arrest and turns on establishing a genuine apprehension of arrest along with the absence of factors that would ordinarily weigh against protection, such as a risk of absconding or a history of prior offences; with timing and choice of forum often decisive.

Quashing of FIRs & criminal complaints is the other principal specialisation of our practice. We invoke the High Court’s inherent powers to quash proceedings where the allegations, even taken at face value, do not disclose an offence, where the complaint is tainted by mala fide intent, or where the criminal process is being used to settle what is really a civil or commercial dispute, including settlement-based quashing, quashing grounded in inordinate delay in lodging a complaint, absence of mandatory sanction to prosecute a public servant, and situations where a complaint is deployed as leverage alongside a parallel civil or matrimonial dispute.

Distinct from quashing, we advise on offences that are compoundable, whether with or without the leave of the court, and on the practical and strategic considerations that govern the choice between compounding and pursuing quashing where both routes are available; including in matrimonial and commercial-adjacent criminal matters where the underlying relationship or transaction has since been resolved.

On economic offences, we advise on proceedings involving allegations of money laundering, including responses to summons and questioning by enforcement agencies, bail applications, and challenges to attachment of property. We also handle matters relating to criminal breach of trust, cheating, and forgery matters that overlap with civil recovery proceedings, representing clients before investigating & enforcement agencies from the earliest stage, including responses to summons, notices, and document requisitions, well before any formal charge is framed. Our trial work carries through discharge applications, cross-examination, and final arguments, and extends, where necessary, to appeals & revisions against conviction, acquittal, or interlocutory orders before the Sessions Court, the High Court, and the Supreme Court.