F. No. 278A/07/2019-Legal
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs)
Legal Cell
Wing ‘C’, 5th Floor, Hudco Vishala Building,
Bhikaji Cama Place, R.K. Puram,
New Delhi-07.12.2020
ORDER
The President of India is please to appoint a fresh panel of Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels of CBIC to handle litigation of Indirect Taxes before various High Courts (other than Delhi High Court) and other fora, in terms of Instruction F. No. 278A/43/2007-Legal dated 05.12.2007, as per following details. 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 formations).
| High Court/ Benches | S. No. | Sr. Standing Counsels | S. No. | Jr. Standing Counsels |
| Allahabad High Court (Pr. Bench) | 1 | Gaurav Mahajan | 1 | Nitin Kesarwani |
| 2 | Pary Agarwal | 2 | Ankur Agarwal | |
| 3 | Ramesh Chandra Shukla | 3 | Anjana Singh | |
| 4 | Ashok Singh | 4 | Prateek Dawar | |
| 5 | Dhananjay Awasthi | 5 | Pratik Chandra | |
| 6 | Krishna Agarwal | 6 | Vaibhav Tripathi | |
| 7 | Amit Mahajan | 7 | Hari Prakash | |
| – | – | 8 | Govind Narain Srivastava | |
| Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) | 1 | Dipak Seth | 1 | Shiv Prakash Shukla |
| 2 | Kuldeepak Nag | 2 | Raj Vikram Singh | |
| 3 | Ratnesh Lal | 3 | – | |
| 4 | Manish Misra | 4 | – | |
| High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati | 1 | Y N Vivekananda | 1 | Santhi Chandra |
| 2 | MVJK Kumar | 2 | B Rama Mohan Rao | |
| 3 | Suresh Kumar Routhu | 3 | Aruna Penumaka | |
| 4 | VAA Ravi Kumar | 4 | Pydi Lakshmana Rao | |
| 5 | SVS Prasada Rao | – | – | |
| 6 | BVS Chalapathi Rao | – | – | |
| Bombay High Court (Pr. Bench) | 1 | Karan P Aclik | 1 | Satyaprakash Sharma |
| 2 | Pradeep Shivnarain Jetly | 2 | Maya Majumdar | |
| 3 | Vijay Harjivandas Kantharia |
3 | Dhananjay Balkrishna Deshmukh | |
| 4 | Paciencia Salvation Cardozo | 4 | Amol D Joshi | |
| 5 | Neha Mehta | 5 | Ruju R Thakker | |
| 6 | Sham V Waive | 6 | Sangeeta Yadav | |
| 7 | Jitendra B Mishra | 7 | Siddharth Chandrashekhar | |
| 8 | Swapnil Shree Krishnadas Bangur | 8 | Ram H Ochani | |
| 9 | Asha A. Desai | 9 | Fernandes Genevieve Catherine (Retired Officer) | |
| 10 | Shehnaz (Sheroo) Vispy Bharucha | 10 | Ganpat Singh Rathore (Retired Officer) | |
| 11 | Neeta Vinay Masurkar | 11 | Padmakar Patkar (Retired Officer) | |
| – | – | 12 | Lilesh Parshuram Sawant (Retired Officer) | |
| Bombay High Court (Aurangabad Bench) | – | – | 1 | Amol Ram Joshi |
| – | – | 2 | Pratik Prakash Kothari | |
| – | – | 3 | Parikshit Pradeep Dawalkar | |
| Bombay High Court (Goa Bench) | 1 | Asha A. Desai | 1 | Priyanka Kamat |
| – | – | 2 | Suzette S.A Pereira | |
| Bombay High Court (Nagpur Bench) | 1 | Sharad N. Bhatted | 1 | Sangeeta Mishra |
| – | – | 2 | Hrishikesh Marathe | |
| – | – | 3 | Kunal K. Nalamwar | |
| Calcutta High Court (Pr. Calcutta Bench) | 1 | Bhaskar Prosad Banerjee | 1 | Manashi Mukherjee |
| 2 | Somnath Ganguli | 2 | Abhradip Maity | |
| 3 | Rajashree Kundalia | 3 | Sukalpa Seal | |
| 4 | Vipul Kundalla | 4 | Aishwarya Rajyashree | |
| 5 | Boudhayan Bhattacharya | 5 | Tapan Bhanja | |
| 6 | Uday Sankar Bhattacharya |
6 | Ekta Sinha | |
| 7 | Sandip Choraria | – | – | |
| 8 | Kaushik Kanti Maiti | – | – | |
| 9 | Kaushik Dey | – | – | |
| Chhattisgarh High Court (Pr. Bench at Bilaspur) | 1 | Animesh Tiwari | – | – |
| Guahati High Court (Pr. Bench, Gauhati) | 1 | Subash Chandra Keyal | 1 | Dr. Bibeka Nanda Gogoi |
| 2 | Syed Burhanur Rahman | – | – | |
| 3 | Sonjoy Sarma | – | – | |
| Guahati High Court (Aizwal Bench) | – | – | 1 | Johny Lalengmawia Tochhawng |
| Guahati H.C. Itanagar Bench | – | – | 1 | Mrinal Kumar Boro |
| Guahati High Court (Kohima Bench) | – | – | 1 | Keduvi Zhotso |
| Gujarat High Court (Pr. Bench Ahmadabad) | 1 | Nikunt Kirit Raval | – | – |
| 2 | Priyank Pravin Lodha | – | – | |
| 3 | Dhawal Dharmendra Vyas | – | – | |
| 4 | Utkarsh Ravi Sharma | – | – | |
| Himachal Pradesh High Court (Pr. Bench Shimla) | 1 | Vijay Kumar Arora | – | – |
| 2 | Anil Khuranna | – | – | |
| High Court of Jammu & Kashmir | 1 | Jagpaul Singh | – | – |
| Jharkhand High Court (Pr. Bench Ranchi) | 1 | Parthsarathy A. S. Pati | 1 | Ashish Kumar Shekhar |
| 2 | Amit Kumar | 2 | Ranjana Mukherjee | |
| Karnataka High Court (Pr. Bangalore Bench) | 1 | Vanita K. R. | 1 | Arvind V. Chavan |
| 2 | Vikram A. Huilgol | 2 | Akash B Shetty | |
| 3 | Amit Deshpande | 3 | – | |
| 4 | Jeevanbabu J. Neeralgi | 4 | – | |
| Karnataka High Court (Dharwad Bench) | 1 | Girish S. Hulmani | – | – |
| Karnataka High Court (Kalaburgi Bench) | 1 | Archana P. Tiwari | – | – |
| Kerala High Court (Pr. Bench Ernakulam) | 1 | Sreelal Warriar | 1 | Ajoy P. B. |
| 2 | Sreejith P. R. | 2 | M.S. Amal Dharsan | |
| 3 | Manu S. | 3 | Kavery S. Thampi | |
| 4 | P.G. Jayashankar | 4 | Rajesh Kumar T.K. | |
| 5 | Preeta S. Nair | 5 | Rajesh K. Raju | |
| 6 | Thomas Mathew
Nellimoottil |
6 | Thanuja Roshan George | |
| 7 | Sheela Devi I | 7 | Dennis Varghese | |
| Madhya Pradesh H. C. (Jabalpur Bench) | 1 | Siddhartha S. Seth | 1 | Sapan Usrethe |
| 2 | Gajendra Singh Thakur | 2 | Shreyas Dubey | |
| 3 | Himanshu Shrivastava | 3 | Rajvardhan Dutt Pararha | |
| 4 | Gautam Prasad | – | ||
| 5 | Abhijeet Shrivastava | – | ||
| M. P. High Court (Gwalior Bench) | 1 | Praveen N. Surange | – | – |
| M.P High Court (Indore Bench) | 1 | Prasanna Prasad | 1 | Abhishek Malviya |
| 2 | V.N. Dubey | |||
| Madras High Court (Pr. Bench at Chennai) | 1 | V. Sundareswaran | 1 | G. Dhana Madhri |
| 2 | Aparna Nandakumar | 2 | G. Anu | |
| 3 | A.P. Srinivas | 3 | P. Rajkumar Jhabakh | |
| 4 | Promod Kumar Chopda | 4 | Siddarth H. | |
| 5 | K. Mohanamurali | 5 | R. Gunaalan | |
| 6 | Rajnish Pathiyal | 6 | G. Meganathan | |
| 7 | K. Umesh Rao | 7 | K. G. Usha Rani | |
| 8 | Hema Mulalikrishnan | 8 | J. Vasu | |
| 9 | R. Hemalatha | – | – | |
| 10 | Sheela M. | – | – | |
| 11 | S. Gurumoorthy | – | – | |
| 12 | T.R. Senthil Kumar | – | – | |
| 13 | M. Santhanaraman | – | – | |
| 14 | Ravi Kannan | – | – | |
| 15 | Rajendran Raghavan | – | – | |
| Madras High Court (Madurai Bench) | – | – | 1 | S. Ragavendre |
| – | – | 2 | K. Prabhu | |
| Manipur High Court (Imphal) | – | – | 1 | Thokchom Sanachouba |
| Orissa High Court (Pr. Bench at Cuttak) | 1 | Radheyshyam Chimanka | 1 | Anand Prakash Das |
| 2 | Choudhury Satyajit Misra | 2 | Abhinandan Pradhan | |
| 3 | Subash Chandra
Mohanty |
– | – | |
| 4 | Prasanna Kumar Panda | – | – | |
| Patna High Court (Pr. Bench)
Punjab & Haryana High Court (Pr. Bench Chandigarh) |
1 | Bench)
Anshuman Singh |
1 | Shashank Shekhar |
| 1 | Saurabh God | 1 | Gagandeep Singh Malhotra | |
| 2 | Anshuman Chopra | 2 | Kunal Vinayak | |
| 3 | Ajay Kalra | 3 | Vikram Bali | |
| 4 | Tajender Joshi | 4 | Alankrit Bhardwaj | |
| 5 | Sharan Sethi | 5 | Niharika Gupta | |
| 6 | Sanjay Bansal | 6 | Vaibhav Gupta | |
| 7 | Rishabh Kapoor | – | – | |
| 8 | Sunish Bindlish | – | – | |
| Rajasthan High Court (Pr. Bench at Jodhpur) | 1 | Rajvendra Saraswat | 1 | Kuldeep Vaishnav |
| 2 | Vipul Singhvi | 2 | Vijay Pooniya | |
| 3 | Ankur Mathur | 3 | – | |
| Rajasthan High Court (Jaipur Bench) | 1 | Kinshuk Jain | 1 | Archit Bohra |
| 2 | Siddarth Ranka | 2 | Mahi Yadav | |
| 3 | Sandeep Pathak | 3 | Rahul Lodha | |
| 4 | Shivangshu Naval | 4 | Kapil Sharma | |
| 5 | Ajay Shukla | – | – | |
| Sikkim High Court | 1 | Ajay Rathi | 1 | Dilip Kumar Agarwal |
| Telangana High Court at Hyderabad | 1 | Sundari R Pisupati | V T Kalyan | |
| 2 | Bommineni Narayana Reddy | 2 | Uday Kumar Bhagwat | |
| 3 | B Narasimha Sharma | 3 | Bokaro Sapna Reddy | |
| 4 | Dominic Mario Fernandes | 4 | Jithender Barenkala | |
| 5 | Swaroop Oorilla | 5 | NVR Rajya Lakshmi | |
| 6 | Ramakrishna Reddy Aedunuthula | 6 | K Kiranmayee | |
| Tripura High Court (Agartala Bench) | 1 | Paramartha Datta | – | – |
| Uttarakhand High Court (Pr. Bench at Nainital) |
1 | Shobhit Saharia | – | – |
| 2 | Ashutosh Gulati | – | – |
2. The panel is constituted initially for a period of six months and on satisfactory performance, the same shall be continued for the remaining period of two and a half years.
3. It is clarified that field formations (GST/Customs formations) may avail services of the Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels who have been appointed vide Board’s order F. No. 278A/07/2019-Legal (Pt.I11) dated 01.10.2020 (copy available on CBIC website) for handling DRI/DGGI cases of Indirect Taxes before various High Courts and other fora.
4. This issues with concurrence of Ministry of Law & Justice vide their ID No. J-12013/35/2019-Judi. dated 12.05.2020 and the Integrated Finance Unit (IFU) Dy. No. 298/1FU-EC/2020 dated 11.09.2020.
(ArylSsh Gupta)
OSD (Legal)
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