Approved panel of Sr/jr standing Counsel for handling CBEC cases of Indirection taxation under various High Courts etc - Central Excise - F. No. 278A/33/2016-Legal

F. No. 278A/33/2016-Legal Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Central Board of Excise Customs) Legal Section Wing C , 5 th Floor, Hudco-Vishala Building, Bhikaji Came Place, R.K. Puram, New Delhi Dated 05-10-2017 ORDER The President of India is please to appoint a fresh panel of Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels of CBEC to handle litigation of Indirect Taxes before various High Courts and other fora, in terms of Instruction F. No. 278A/43/2007-Legal dated 05.12.2007. the terms of these Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels w.e.f. 03.10.2017 to 08.06.2019. The engagement of these Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels is subject to the terms and conditions as laid down in the said Instruction dated 05.12.2007 and Instruction F. No. 278A/50/2011-Legal dated 14.09.2012 (Field Commissionerate/formations) High Court/ Benches S. No Senior Standing Counsel S. No Junior Standing Counsel S/Sh./Smt./Ms. S/Sh./Smt./Ms. Allahabad High Court (Principal Bench) 1 Piyush Agarwal 1 Shubham Agarwal 2 Dhananjay Awasthi 2 Vinay Shukla 3 Gaurav Mahajan 3 Siddharth Singhal 4 B.K. Singh Raghuvanshi 5 Ramesh Chandra Shukla 6 Ashok Singh Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) 1 Rajesh Singh Chauhan 1 Anita Bansal 2 Alok Mathur 2 Anand Kumar Singh 3 Kuldeepak Nag 4 Deepak Seth Telangana Andhra High Court Hyderabad 1 A. Radha Krishna 1 Pujitha Gorantia 2 Thota Vanalatha Reddy 2 S. Ganesh 3 Manikonda Vijay Kumar 3 Sujan Kumar Thotakura 4 Y. N. Vivekananda 4 Md. Kaleem Pasha 5 B. Jitendra 6 Sanjeev Gillella Bombay High Court (Principal Bombay Bench) 1 Pradeep Jetly 1 Jitendra B. Mishra 2 Mahendra l. Sethna 2 Pooja Vijay Singh Thorat 3 Karan P. Adik 3 Sneha Chandrashekhar Prabhu 4 Neha Mehta 4 Indrayani Nitin Deshmukh 5 Vijay H. Kantharia 5 Nikhil N. Wadikar 6 Sham Vijaykumar Walve 6 Satyaprakash sharma 7 Tejveer Singh 7 Amol D. Joshi 8 Dhananjay Balkrishna Deshmukh 9 Maya Majumdar 10 Rajiv K. Jain 11 Ram H. Ochani 12 S. B. Gothwal Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) 1 Dr. Kalplata Patil Bharaswadkar Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) 1 Shantanu S. Khedkar 1 Sangeeta Mishra 2 Hrikesh Marathe Bombay High Court (Panjim Bench) 1 Asha Desai Calcutta High Court (Principal Calcutta Bench) 1 Shekar B. Saraf 1 Sanjukta Gupta 2 Kausik Kanti Maiti Delhi High Court (Principal Bench at New Delhi) 1 Sonu Bhatnagar 1 Bhuvnesh Satija 2 Neeraj Malhotra 2 Vibhooti Malhotra 3 Nitya Sharma 4 Anubhav Ray Tripura High Court (Agartala) 1 Paramartha Dutta Manipur High Court (Imphal) 1 N. Brojendra Singh Gujarat Court (Principal Ahmedabad Bench) 1 Nirzar Sushilkumar 1 Vacha Jwalin Nanavati 2 Parth H. Bhatt 2 Shruti Shreekani Pathak 3 Parth Yashendra Divyeshwar 3 Swapneshwar Gautam 4 Viral K. Shah 5 Manisha L. Shah 6 Mitesh Amin Himachal Pradesh High Court (Shimla Bench) 1 Sunil Kumar Mallan Jammu and Srinagar High Court (Principal Jammu Bench) 1 Jagpaul Singh Jharkhand High Court (Principal Bench Ranchi) 1 Deepak Roshan 1 Amit Kumar 2 Ratnesh Kumar Karnataka High Court (Principal Bangalore Bench) 1 Jeevan Neeralgi 1 Arvind V. Chavan 2 N.R. Bhaskar 2 Nikhil Kurgod 3 Vikram A. Huilgol 4 Amit Deshpande 5 K.M. Shivayogiswamy 6 M. R. Vanaja 7 Vanita K. R. Karnataka High Court (Principal Dharwad Bench) 1 S. N. Rajendra Kerala High Court (Principal Bench at Ernakulam) 1 Thomas Mathew Nellimoottii 1 R. Harishankar 2 Tojan J. Vathikulam Madhya Pradesh High Court (Jabalpur Bench) 1 Sidharth S. Seth 2 Gajendra Singh Thakur Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) 1 Praveen N. Surange Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) 1 Prasanna Prasad Chhattisagarh High Court (Bilaspur Bench) 1 Maneesh Sharma 1 Animesh Tiwari Madras High Court (Principal Bench at Chennai) 1 V. Sundareswaran 2 A. P. Srinivas 3 Rajnish Pathiyil 4 Aparna Nandakumar 5 M. Santhanaraman 6 M. Venkateswaran 7 T.L. Thirumalaisamy Madras High court (Madurai Bench) 1. B. Vijay Karthikeyan 2. R. Arvindan Orissa High Court (Principal Bench at Cuttak) 1. Radheyshyam Chim 2 Prasanna Kumar Parhi 3 Bhagban Panda 4 Subash Chandra Mohanty Patna High Court (Principal Bench) 1 Anshuman Singh 1 Alok Kumar Agrawal 2 Anjani Kumar Sharan 2 Akshansh Ankit 3 Rajesh Kumar Verma 3 Anshay Bahadur Mathur 4 Shashank Shekhar Punjab and Haryana High Court (Principal Chandigarh Bench) 1 Sunish Bindlish Rajasthan High Court (Principal Benches at Jodhpur and Jaipur) 1 Rajvendra Saraswat Uttarakhand High Court (Principal Bench at Nainital) 1 Shobhit Saharia Sub total 73 (SR) 43 (JR) Proposed for (DGDRI) Table -II Name of the zone Name of the High Court Sl. No. Name of the Sr. Standing Counsel Sl. No. Name of the Jr. Standing Counsel DRI (Hqrs.) including Delhi Zonal Unit Delhi High Court 1 Sanchit Garga 2 Talha Abdul Rahman 3 Apoorva Pandey Kolkata Zonal Unit Calcutta High Court 1 Kaushik Dey Sub total 1 (SR) 3 (JR) Grand Total 74 (SR) 13 (JR) 2. It is clarified that field formations may avail services for the Sr./Jr. Standing counsels indicated against DGDRI/DGST for specified High Court and Vice-Versa. 3. This issues with concurrence of Ministry of Law Justice vide their ID No. J-11019/5/2017-Judl. Dated 09.08.2017 and the Integrated Finance Unit (IFU) Dy. No. 903/IFU-II dated 18.09.2017. (Y.S. Karoo) Under Secretary to the Govt. of India