Approved panel of Sr/Jr Standing Counsel - Central Excise - F. No. 278A/21/2015-Legal

F. No. 278A/21/2015-Legal Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Excise Customs (Legal Cell) 5 th Floor, C Wing, Hudco Vishala Building, Bhikaji Came Place, R.K.Puram, New Delhi, 9 th June, 2016 ORDER In supersession of Board s letter F. No. 278A/34/2014-Legal dated 20.01.2015, the President of India is pleased to appoint a fresh panel of Sr. /Jr. Standing Counsels of CBEC to handle litigation of Indirect Taxes before various High courts and other for a, in terms of Instructions F.N. 278A/43/2007-Legal dated 05.12.2007 as per following details for a term of three years from the date of issue of this order. The tenure of these Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels will expire on 08.06.2019. The engagement of these Sr. /Jr. Standing Counsels is subject to the terms and conditions as laid down in the said Instructions dated 5.12.2007 and Instructions F.N. 278A/50/2011-Legal dated 14.09.2012. High Court/Benches S. No. Senior Standing Counsel S. No. Junior Standing Counsel Allahabad High Court (Principal Bench) 1. B. K. Singh Raghuvanshi 1. Prav Aggarwal 2. Amit Mahajan 2 Anjana Singh 3. Ashok Singh 3. Pratik Chandra 4. Krishna Agarwal 5. Praveen Kumar 6. M. J. Michael Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) 1. Deepak Seth 1 Ajay Kr. Singh Tomar 2 Rajesh Singh Chauhan 2 Alok Sharma Telangana Andhra High Court at Hyderabad 1 V. Gopala Krishna Gokhale 1. BK Ramesh Babu 2 B. Narasimha Sharma 2. Swaroop Oorilla 3. P.S.P Suresh Kumar 3. Sudha 4. Dr. K manmadha Rao 4. Dominic Mario Fernandes 5 B. Narayana Reddy 5 Dr. Nemmikanti Uma Shankar 6 Sunderi R. Pisupati 6 Pydi Lakshmana Rao 7 Bathula Rak kiram 7 Suresh Kumar Routhu 8 M.V.J.K. Kumar 9 Jalakan Satyaram 10 P. Sarda Bombay High Court (Principal Bombay Bench) 1 P S Jetley 1 J B Mishra 2 M I Sethna 2 Ms. Anamika Malhotra 3 Advait M Sethna 3 S D Bhosle 4 VH Kantharia 4 Ms. Raju Thakker 5 Ms S I Shah 5 Joel A. Carlos 6 Suresh S Pakale 6 Sham V. Walve 7 Y.S Bhate 7 Vipul A Bajpayee 8 A S Rao 8 Ms Shalaka A. Gujar Karande 9 S. P. Bharati 9 Vibhavari Pathak 10. BB Sharma 11 Y.R. Mishra 12 Vinay A Sonpal 13 Ms. P.S Cardozo 14 Manglamber Dwivedi 15 Swapnil S Bangur Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) 1 Dr. Kalpalata Patil Bharswadkar 1 Sudhir Dattatraya patil 2 Dwarkadas Ladaa 2 Kartik Dnyanoba mundhe Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) 1 Firdos T. Mirza 1 Anand S. Deshpande 2 Sharad Bhattad 2 Kunal Nalmwar Bombay High Court (Panjim Bench) 1 Carlos A. Ferreia 1 Ms. Susan Linhares Costa 2 Ms. Priyanka P. Kamat Calcutta High Court 1 Rathindra Nath Das 1 Kausik Kanti maiti 2 Pradip Kumar Roy 2 Santa Mitra 3 Protonu Deb Mukherjee 3 Subir Kumar Saha 4 Mamta Bhargava 4 Bhaskar Prasad Banerjee 5 Rajarshi Bharadwaj 5 Aishwarya Rajyashree 6 Shiv Shankar Banerjee 6 Mansi Mukharjee 7 Md Talay Masood Siddiqui 8 Amitabrata Roy 9 Somnath Ganguli 10 Uday Sankar Bhattacharya Sikkim High Court (Gangtok Bench) 1 Dilip Kumar Singh Delhi High Court (Principal Bench at New Delhi 1 Satish Kumar 1 Ashwani Bhardwaj 2 Kamal Nijhawan 2 Sameer Jain 3. Rahul Kaushik 3. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema 4. Ms. Sonia Sharma 4 Kapil Rastogi 5. Pramod Kumar Rai 5 Deepak Anand 6. Harpreet Singh 6 Lohitaksha Shukla 7 Amit Bansal 7 Pratap Singh Ahluwalia 8 Sanjev Narula Guahati High Court (Principal Guahati Bench) 1 Subhash Chandra Keyal 1 Deepam Borah 2 Bipul sarma 2 Rana Singha Guahati High Court (Kohima Bench) 1 N. Longsithung Ezung Guahati High Court (Itanagar Bench) 1 Mrinal Kumar Boro Guahati High Court (Aizwal Bench) 1 R. Laltanpuia 1 Mrs. Dorothy Lalrinchhani Tripura High Court 1 Paramartha Dutta 1 Kaushik Dutta Manipur High Court (Imphal) 1 N. Brojendra Singh 1 Boboy Potsangbam Maghalaya High Court (Shillong) 1 Nitesh Mozika 1 Mrs. Gauri Purkayastha Gujarat High Court (Principal Ahmadabad Bench) 1 Gaurang H Bhatt 1 Jaimin Amul Gandhi 2 Rashesh J Oza 2 Priyanka Lodha 3 Dr. Amee Yajnik 4 Ms. Sejal K. Mandavia 5 Yogesh Navinchandra Ravani 6 Kalpesh N. Shastri 7 Avani S. Mehta 8 Sudhir M. Mehta 9 Shaval D Vyas 10 Chintan Harishbhai Dave 11 Ankit Shah Himachal Pradesh High Court (Shimla Bench) 1 Sandeep Sharma 2 Rajiv Jiwan Jammu and Srinagar High Court (Principal Jammu Bench) 1 Ajay Sharma 2 V.K. Magoo 3 Piyush Gupta Jharkhand High Court (Principal Bench Ranchi) 1 Ratnesh Kumar 1 Abhijeet Kumar Singh 2 Deepak Roshan 2 Amit Kumar Karnataka High Court (Principal Bangalore Bench) 1 Jeevan Babu J Neeralgi 1 N.v. Prabhakaraiah 2 B. Pramod 2 C. Geetha 3 K.V. Arvind 4 NR Bhaskar 5 C. Shashikantha 6 Y. Hariprasad 7 M.V. Chandrashekar Reddy Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) 1 S.C. Bheenareddy 1 Gangadhar S. Hosakeri 2 S N Rajendra Karnatak High Court (Gulbarga Bench) 1 Smt. Archana P. Tiwari Kerala High Court (Principal Bench at Ernakulam) 1 Thomas Mathew Nellimoottil 1 Tojan J Vathkulam 2 Joh Verghese 2 Mrs. A. Sreekala 3 Saiby Jose Kidangoor 3 Mrs. Preetha S. Nair 4 Steelal N. Warriar 4 P.L. Babu 5 Ramavarma Reghunathan Thamburan 5 Mrs. Sindhu Mol T.P. 6 P.R. Srejith 6 Rajesh B. 7 Mrs. Sheela Devi I 7 Ranjeet Jacob Koshy Madhya Pradesh High Court (Jabalpur Bench) 1 Gautam Prasad 1 Himanshu Shrivastava 2 Ashutosh Upadhyay Madhya Pradesh High Court (Gwalior Bench) 1 Bhupendra Singh Chauhan 1 Vishal Tripathi 2 Ms. Anuradha Singh 2 Ankit Saxena Madhya Pradesh High Court (Indore Bench) 1 Prasanna Prasad 1 Anendra Singh Parihar 2 Abhishek Tugnawat 2 Amol Shrivastava Chhattisgarh High Court (Bilaspur Bench) 1 Manish Sharma 1 Vinay Kumar Pandey 2 Ms. Smiti Sharma Madras High Court (Principal Bench at Chennai 1 K. Mohanamurali 1. P. Raj Kumar Jhabakh 2 Rajnish Pathyil 2 K. Magesh 3 A.P. Srinivas 3 S. Rajasekar 4 S. Haja Mohideen Gisthi 4 D Raghupathy 5 T.S. Raja Mohan 5 K. Umesh Rao 6 Vikram Ramakrishnan 6 S. Seethalakshmi 7 N.V. Balaji 7 K.S. Ramaswamy 8 S.R. Sundar 8 N. Senthil Kumar 9 T. r. Senthil Kumar 10 Meera Gupta 11 Hema Muralikrishnan 12 R. Hemalatha 13 T. Pramod Kumar Chodpa 14 K. Ravi 15 G. Syed Nurullah Sheriff 16 B. Rabu Manohar Madras High Court 1 R Aravindan 1 R Nandakumar 2 B. Vijay Karthikeyan 2 S. Gurumoorthy Orissa High Court (Principal Bench at Cuttak) 1 Prasanta Kishore Ray 1 Prasenjeet mohapatra 2 Ms Mrinalini Padhi 2 Anand Prakash Das 3 Choudhury Satyajit Mishra 3 Amitav Das 4 Gautam Mishra 5 Tushar Kanti Satpathy Patna High Court (Principal Bench) 1 Smt. Nivedita Nirvikar 2 Satya Prakash Tripathy Punjab and Haryana High Court (Principal Chandigarh Bench) 1 Satish Bindish 1 Ish Puneet Singh 2 Sharan Sethi 3 Amit Goal 4 Anshuman Chopra 5 Tajender Joshi 6 Sourabh Goyal Rajasthan High Court (Principal Benches at Jodhpur and Jaipur) 1 Anil Mehta 1 Siddharth Ranka 2 Vipul Singhvi 2 Falgun Buch 3 Kinshuk Jain 3 Anugar Kalavatiya 4 Kanishka Gupta 4 Kuldeep Vaishnav 5 Sandeep Pathak 6 Anuroop Singhi Uttarakhand High Court (Principal Bench at Nainital) 1 Shobit Saharia 1 Mrs. Vijay Lakshmi 2 Hari Mohan Bhatia (DGRI) 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 Ahmadabad Zonal Unit Gujarat High Court 1 Hriday Buch Bangalore Zonal Unit Karnataka Kerala High Court 2 V.D. Raviraj 2 Adarsh Gangal 3 C.P. Udhayabanu Chennai Zonal Unit Madras High Court 1 V. Sundareswaran DRI (Hqrs.) including Delhi Zonal Unit Delhi High Court 1 Aditya Singla 1 Abhaya Nath Das 2 Ajit Sharma 3 Judy James 4 Pritpal Singh Nijjar 5 R. N. Singh 6 R.V. Sinha 7 Sanjeev Kumar Dube 8 Satish Aggrawala 9 Vinod Diwakar Ludhiana Zonal Unit Punjab Haryana High Court 1 R.K. Handa 2 D.D. Sharma 3 Rajan Malhotra Kolkata Zonal Unit Calcutta High Court 1 Kaushik Dey 2. It is clarified that field formations may avail services of the Sr. /Jr. Standing Counsels indicated against DGRI for the specified High Courts and Vice-Versa. 3. This issues with the concurrence of Ministry of Law Justice vide their ID No J-11017/17/2016-Judi dated 26.05.2016 and the Integrated Finance Unit (IFU) Dy. No. 405/2016/IFU-II dated 02.06.2016. (Y.S. Karoo) Under Secretary to the Govt. of India