The President of India is pleased to appoint a panel of Sr./Jr. StandingCounsels for handling DRI/GST Intelligence cases of Indirect Taxes before variousHigh Courts and other fora, in term of Instruction F. No. 278A/43/2007-Legal dated05.12.2007 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 guideline dated 05.12.2007 and revise fee structure F. No. 278A/50/2011-Legal dated14.09.2012, in reference of proposal received from DRI/DGGI vide F. No.DRI/CI/MISC/66/2023-CI dated 22.02.202

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The President of India is pleased to appoint a panel of Sr./Jr. Standing
Counsels for handling DRI/GST Intelligence cases of Indirect Taxes before various
High Courts and other fora, in term 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 guideline dated 05.12.2007 and revise fee structure F. No. 278A/50/2011-Legal dated
14.09.2012, in reference of proposal received from DRI/DGGI vide F. No.
DRI/CI/MISC/66/2023-CI dated 22.02.2024.

High
Court/Benches Sl.
No. Sr. Standing Counsels
(Sh./Ms./Smt.) Sl. No. Jr. Standing
Counsels
(Sh./Ms./Smt.)
Karnataka High
Court (Principal
Bench) 1 Madhu N. Rao 1 Chandan Sanjay
Bhat
2 Jeevanbabu J. Neeralgi 2 Kiran B.S.
3 Girish S Hulmani 3 Indra Kumar C
4 Madhukar M Deshpande – –
5 Kumar M.N. – –
Guwahati High
Court (Principal
Bench) 1 Subhash Chandra Keyal 1 Kriston Brook
2 Deepam Borah – –
3 Mrinal Kumar Boro – –
Tripura High
Court (Principal
Bench) 1 Paramartha Datta 1 Arindam Ray
Himachal
Pradesh High
Court (Principal
Bench) 1 Vijay Kumar Arora – –
Odisha High 1 Tushar Kanti Satpathy 1 Avinash Kedia

Court (Principal
High Court)
Chhattisgarh
High Court
(Principal Bench) 1 Maneesh Sharma – –
2 Ashutosh Singh
Kachhawaha – –
Gujarat
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Utkarsh Ravi Sharma 1 Ketki P. Jha
2 Priyank Praveen Lodha 2 Hetal Gaurav Patel
3 Siddharth H. Dave 3 Ashutosh Sanjaybhai
Dave
4 Chirayu A. Mehta 4 Noopur Parikh
5 Tirth Nayak 5 Krutik Parikh
6 Chandrashekhar
Bhagwanlal Gupta – –
7 Aishvarya Gupta – –
Patna
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Anshuman Singh 1 Ankit Kumar Singh
2 Ankit Katriar 2 Prachi Pallavi
3 Sanchay Srivastava 3 Abhishek Kumar
4 Vikas Kumar – –
5 Amit Pandey – –
6 Sriram Krishna – –
Andhra Pra
High Court
Benches) desh
(All 1 Y.N. Vivekananda 1 Kavya Muppidi
2 Santhi Chandra 2 Varun Byreddy
3 B.V.S Chalapathi Rao 3 Manoj Kumar
Bethapudi
4 P.S.P. Suresh Kumar 4 Baliboyina Sravani
5 Pulimamidi Shreyas
Reddy – –
Allahabad
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Krishna Agrawal 1 Tanmay Sadh
2 Dheeraj Srivastava 2 Kushagra Srivastava
3 Amit Mahajan 3 Anuj Singh
4 Digvijay Nath Dubey 4 Amar Mani Tiwari
5 Dhananjay Awasthi – –
6 Parv Agarwal – –
7 Ankur Agarwal – –
8 Surya Mani Singh – –
9 Siddhant Mishra – –
10 Atul Kumar Shahi – –
11 Kuldeep Srivastava – –
Bombay
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Advait M. Sethna 1 Shrikar Dattatraya
Deshpande
2 Raju R. Thakker 2 Rakesh N Reddy
3 Aruna Shantharam Pai 3 Yogita Vidyadhar
Gogar
4 Siddharth
Chandrashekhar 4 Kavita Shukla
5 Ram Hotchand Ochani 5 Sangeeta Sabhapati
Yadav
6 Bahraiz Firdaus Irani 6 Rajendra Raghunath
Kedge

7   Shyamrishi Pathak   7   Sangeeta Mishra
8   Kunal Dattatrey Nawale  8   Murtaza Moize Najmi
9       Paciencia   Salvation

Cardozo 9 Rodrigues Francis
Jose
10 Deepak Jitendra Singh 10 Carina
Xavier Sharon
11 Jitendra B. Mishra 11 Maya Majumdar
12 Anand S. Deshpande 12 Shilpa Goel
13 Atul S. Sarpande – –
14 Gopal G. Dodya – –
Rajasthan High
Court (All
Benches) 1 Kinshuk Jain 1 Sakshi Srivastava
2 Ajay Shukla 2 Jay Upadhyay
3 Namit Saxena 3 Kapil Sharma
4 Vipul Singhvi 4 Tanay Jain
5 B.S. Ajatshatru
Meena Singh 5 Tanuj Gupta
6 Anil Bhansali 6 Sandeep Kumar
7 Aditi Lodha 7 Rahul Lodha
8 Sumit Teterwal 8 Akshay Bhardwaj
9 Naresh Kumar Gupta 9 Chandra Shekhar
Sinha
– – 10 Devesh Yadav
Uttarakhand
High Court
Benches) (All 1 Sandeep Chilana 1 Harshvardhan
Dhanik
2 Shobhit Saharia 2 Abhishek Verma
3 Hari Mohan Bhatia – –
4 Sahil Mullick – –
Punjab
Haryana
Court
Benches) &
High
(All 1 Sourabh Goel 1 Atul Gupta
2 Sunish Bindlish 2 Sagar Ratusaria
3 Rajesh Sethi 3 Varinder Kaur
Warraich
4 Sharmila Sharma 4 Prashant Rana
5 Akashdeep Singh 5 Ekakshra Mahajan
Mandhar
6 Naman Jain – –
7 Neha Awasthi – –
Madras
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Rajnish Pathiyil 1 K V Muthuvisakan
2 M. Santhanaraman 2 Siddarth H
3 R. Hemalatha 3 Pooja P
4 Rajendarn Raghavan 4 S. Vaitheeswari
5 K. Mohanamurli 5 Aswini S
6 T.V Sai Srujan – –
7 Umesh Rao K – –
8 G. Meganathan – –
9 Sheela M – –
10 V.Murali – –
11 S.T. Bharath Gowtham – –
12 P. Raj Kumar Jhabakh – –
Telangana High 1 Dominic Mario 1 Ankit Kapoor

Court   (All

Benches)
2 Fernandes
Vijay Kumar Pu nna 2 Bokaro
Reddy Sapna
3 Tadepalli
Subba Rao Venkata 3 Ennamsetty Akhil
4 B. Kavita Yadav 4 Srikar Jonnalagadda
5 V. T Kalyan 5 NVR. Rajya Lakshmi
6 M.P. Kashyap – –
7 Anil prasad Tiwari – –
8 Naraparaju Avaneesh – –
9 Aenugu Rajashekhar
Reddy – –
10 G Kalyan Chakravarthy – –
Madhya Pradesh
High Court
Benches) (All 1 Prasanna Prasad 1 Chandan Airen
2 Shrey Raj Saxena 2 Nitin Agarwal
3 Gajendra Singh Thakur 3 Vedang Mishra
4 Abhijeet Awasthi 4 Utkarsh Agrawal
5 Praveen Nishikant
Surange 5 Ajinkya Dagaonkar
6 Siddharth Seth – –
7 Shreyas Dubey – –
8 Harshavardhan Topre – –
9 Rahul Diwaker – –
Kolkata
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Uday Sankar
Bhattacharya 1 Tapan Bhanja
2 Bhaskar Prosad
Banerjee 2 Abhradip Maity
3 Vipul Kundalia 3 Sukanya Dutta
4 Kausik Kanti Maiti – –
5 Kaushik Dey – –
6 Ratan Banik – –
7 Rajashree
Kundalia Venket – –
8 Nadeem Sulaiman – –
9 Vikramarth S. Chand – –
10 Ajay Gaggar – –
11 Sumit Kumar Basu – –
Delhi High Court
(All Benches) 1 Anurag Ojha 1 Apoorv Agarwal
2 Siddhartha Sinha 2 Vivek Gurnani
3 Anurag Soan 3 Aakash Wal
4 Aniruddha Deshmukh 4 Shashwat Parihar
5 Harpreet Singh 5 Mohd. Shahrukh Ali
6 Abhishek Garg 6 Rahul Krishna
7 Maju Chaturvedi 7 Ujjwal Sinha
8 Monica Benjamin 8 Shivani Luthra
Lohiya
9 Aditya Singla 9 Kaustubh Anil
Shakkarwar
10 Prashant
Meharchandani 10 Ashutosh Senger
11 Anandh. K 11 Avijit Dikshit
12 Shubham Tyagi 12 Anish Dhingra
13 Anushree Narain 13 Abhinav Kalia
14 Akshay Amritanshu – –
15 Suhasini Sen – –
16 Sanyat Lodha – –
17 Piyush Beriwal – –
18 Aditya Shekhar – –
19 Vertika Sharma – –
Jharkhand
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Ratnesh Kumar 1 Anurag Vijay
2 Parthsarathy Anand
Swaroop Pati – –
3 Amit Kumar – –
4 Sandeep Agarwal – –
Jammu
Kashmir
Court
Benches) &
High
(All 1 Javeed Ahmad Mir – –
2 Hitesh Sharma – –
Kerala
Court
Benches) High
(All 1 Sreelal Warriar 1 Rajesh K. Raju
2 Bosco. K.T. 2 Dr. Ajoy P.B.
3 Manu. S 3 Vivek M
4 Dinesh P.T 4 Vivek A.V.
5 P.G. Jayashankar – –
6 Jagth N – –
Total = 149 Total = 87

  1. The panel is constituted for a period of three years in terms of Board’s letterdated 05.12.2007. The fee of Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels are governed by revised fee structure dated 14.09.2012.
  2. It is clarified that DRI/DGGI may avail the services of Sr./Jr. Standing
    Counsels who have been appointed vide Board’s Order F. No. 2378A/13/2023Legal (Part I) dated 04.07.2024 (copy available on CBIC website) for handling
    Indirect Taxation cases of Field formations (GST/C.Ex/Customs) before various
    High Courts and other fora.
  3. This issues with concurrence of Ministry of Law & Justice and the integrated Finance Unit (IFU).

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  1. Pr. Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, 7 Floor, Drum Shape Building, ‘D’ Block, I.P. Bhawan, I.P. Estate, New Delhi-110002.
  2. Pr. Directorate General, Directorate of GST Intelligence, West Block-8, Wing
    nd
    No. 6, 2 Floor, R.K. Puram, New delhi-110066.
  3. All Joint Secretaries/Commissioners under CBIC.
  4. Special Secretary, GST Council, Jeevan Bharti Building, Connaught Place,
    New Delhi.
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  5. CEO, Goods and Services Tax Network, East Wing, 4 Floor, World Mark-I,
    Tower ‘B’, Aerocity, New Delhi.
  6. Judicial Section, Department of Legal Affairs, M/o Law and Justice.
  7. integrated Finance Unit (IFU)/EC-II, Department of Revenue, M/o Finance
  8. Webmaster.cbec@icegate.gov.in for uploading the same on CBIC website under URL:cbic.gov.in/htdocs-cbec/legalaffairs/dla_idx.
  9. Guard file.

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