Summer Internship 2017

R.R. Prasad & Associates,

The High Court of Judicature at Patna

Submitted by
Apekshit Raj Singh
Division A
PRN 16010224051
Class BBA LLB
Semester II
Batch 2016-2021

In

Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA

Symbiosis International University, Pune

Under the Guidance of

Mr. Adv. Abhimanyu Vatsa
104, Pushpanjali Apartment, Buddha Marg, Patna.

May-June, 2017
 CERTIFICATE

The Internship entitled Summer Internship 2017 submitted to the Symbiosis Law
School, NOIDA for Summer Internship 2017 in Semester II of Batch 2016-2021
as part of assessment is based on my work carried out under the guidance of Mr.
Adv. Abhimanyu Vatsa from 15th May 2017 to 29th June 2017 at The High Court
of Judicature at Patna.

The written submission displays work carried out by myself by following the
policies, rules and regulations applicable at the place of the internship. Further it
has not been submitted elsewhere for any purpose academic or non-academic.

The material borrowed from other sources and incorporated in the written
submission has been duly acknowledged.

I understand that I myself could be held responsible and accountable for

submission of information otherwise, if any, detected later on.

Signature of the Candidate

Date: 14/07/2017
 Internship Experience

Overview
I did my internship at the High Court of Judicature at Patna and DRT (Patna)
under the guidance of Mr. Adv. Abhimanyu Vatsa. He practices in both Criminal
and Civil litigations. The initial days of my internship under the guidance of Mr.
Vatsa comprised of getting accustomed myself with the procedures involved in
the working of the Honble High Court. He instructed me to briefly study all the
important relevant acts and statutes that would further be referred to his cases.
These included The Indian Penal Code, 1860; The Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973; The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881;
SARFAESI Act, 2002. During the initial phase of my internship, the High Court
was on vacation and thus I was asked to assist Mr. Vatsa with civil cases (mostly
pertaining to DRT and land) and very few criminal cases. The very limited
experience I had with the working of the High Court was only after the vacations
had ended when I was in the last phase of my summer internship. Focusing on
criminal litigation, I was familiarized with the important procedures pertaining to
criminal law What are cognizable and non-cognizable offences? What
formulates a bailable offence? How is an FIR registered by the investigating
officer? How is the evidence collected and examined by the investigating officer?
How are charges framed against the accused? What are the two modes of filing a
criminal complaint/appeal? All these questions were answered after the proper
study of the relevant sections of The Code of Criminal Procedure which
consumed a considerable part of the duration of my internship. The latter part of
my internship divulged me with the working of High Court which included filing of
Writ Petitions and cases pertaining to cancellation of bail matters. Owing to my
previous internship under Mr. Adv. Rajeev Ranjan Prasad who recently became
High Court Judge at the High Court of Judicature at Patna, I was quite a bit
aware of the discipline, decorum and the formal procedures carried out in the
working of a court.

Roles and Responsibilities

Now coming to the part of Roles and Responsibilities, I was mostly emphasized
on studying cases and statutes, researching case laws and drafting cases. My
internship started on 15th May, 2017 but unfortunately the Honble High Court
went on vacation from 18th May 2017 to 18th June, 2017. And being on the honest
side I was not really offered much to do much in the court during the tenure of the
Vacation Bench. Also I would like to point out that due to an unfortunate incident
at the Honble High Court, the interns were not allowed to enter the court rooms
and corridors due to security reasons. Hence (due to my bad luck) my
observation period of court proceedings got limited to five days only. But in those
five days I really got impressed and fascinated by the cross-examination plaints
and the skills shown by the legal counsels in such plaints. I really enjoyed the
court sessions of Honble Mr. Justices K.K. Mandal, Amanullah, Shivaji Pandey,
R.R. Prasad and the division bench of CJ Rajendra Menon and Vikas Jain.

I was very much enthralled by Mr. Vatsa seeing that how much amount of time he
invested in properly analyzing his own plaints so as to avoid any mistakes and be
thorough with his pleadings before the learned judges even after years of practice
and experience. On certain occasions Sir would assign me to one of his juniors
who would merely look into case laws.

Learning about Laws and their Application

Owing to several case requirements, I was asked to study the relevant sections
connected with the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881;
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973; the Securitisation and Reconstruction of the
Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act, 2002);
and I got very little exposure to Banking Laws. I really loved the way the statutes
have been drafted in our country. The philosophical and jurisprudential thought
behind every statute is amazingly deep. There is an amazing balance between
the technical and philosophical approach of the laws in India. It can be said that
there are numerous lines of texts and interpretations between two lines of bare
texts of laws.

I was able to analyze and appreciate the importance of Writ Petitions and
towards the protection of individual as well as public interests. The study of
Jurisprudence in my first semester has helped me to understand the importance
of moral obligations in contrast to legal obligations in the furtherance of justice.
The terminologies associated with the Law of Contract such as concepts of fraud
and misrepresentation, coercion, undue influence and mentioning of the famous
section 23 of the ICA, 1872 helped me in assimilating cases related to property
disputes despite having no direct connection with the Law of Contract itself.
Listening and working with senior has thus equipped me in understanding the
varied aspects of law which is not found in texts of law books and research
papers. This internship has also kindled my interest in the field of litigation and
has thus helped me in scrutinizing the importance of the art of manipulation in
argumentation, the efforts involved in legal research work.