Six Areas.
Each practised at depth.

White-collar criminal defence requires an advocate who understands both the applicable penal provisions and the commercial or regulatory context in which the alleged offence is said to have occurred. Charging authorities increasingly bring overlapping prosecutions under multiple statutes simultaneously — PMLA alongside IPC, or FEMA alongside Companies Act offences.

EPIC Law accepts mandates in matters involving economic offences at the investigation stage, bail and anticipatory bail in economic offence cases, trial advocacy in special courts, and appellate proceedings before the High Courts and the Supreme Court. Search-and-seizure response — advising clients at the time of agency action — is a particular area of focus.

Economic offences in India are prosecuted under a complex matrix of statutes, each with its own evidentiary requirements, procedural rules, and consequences. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act frequently attaches to these prosecutions, creating layered exposure.

EPIC Law accepts matters involving bank fraud (under Section 420 IPC / BNS and the Banking Regulation Act), GST and customs offences, securities fraud prosecuted by SEBI or the Serious Fraud Investigation Office, benami transactions under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, and declarations under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act.

Regulatory enforcement in India has evolved from civil proceedings with monetary penalties to quasi-criminal adjudications with significant personal exposure. SEBI investigations may lead to SAT appeals, criminal prosecution, and High Court challenge simultaneously. RBI enforcement actions increasingly have criminal dimensions under the Banking Regulation Act and FEMA.

EPIC Law accepts mandates from the investigation stage through final adjudication and appeal: SEBI show-cause proceedings and adjudication, SAT appeals, High Court writ petitions against regulatory orders, RBI enforcement proceedings, and CCI matters where criminal exposure has been created by the underlying conduct.

General criminal practice spans the full range of criminal proceedings under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (and, for pending matters, the Indian Penal Code), the Code of Criminal Procedure / Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and a range of special statutes. The practice covers bail and anticipatory bail, criminal trials at the Sessions level, revisions and criminal appeals before the High Court.

Particular focus areas within the general criminal practice are NDPS Act defence (where procedural compliance at the search-and-seizure stage is frequently determinative), matters under the POCSO Act, cybercrime, and criminal defamation proceedings. Constitutional challenges arising from the criminal proceeding — including challenges to the constitutionality of penal provisions — are within the practice.

Criminal appellate practice before the High Courts and the Supreme Court requires a different discipline from trial advocacy. The appellate advocate must master the record, identify the operative findings, and construct an argument that locates the error of law or perverse appreciation of fact that survived the trial court's scrutiny.

EPIC Law accepts criminal appeals from Sessions Courts to the High Court and from the High Court to the Supreme Court by Special Leave under Article 136 of the Constitution. Criminal revisions, references under Section 395 CrPC/BNSS, and challenges to conviction or acquittal — whether by the accused or the State — are within the practice. Bail pending appeal is a particular area of practice.

Bail is the most time-sensitive aspect of criminal law practice. An application must be prepared quickly, argued persuasively, and — if refused — escalated through the hierarchy of courts without delay. EPIC Law approaches bail as a matter of principle: liberty is the rule; detention is the exception. Every application is prepared from first principles on the facts of the matter.

The practice covers regular bail under Section 436/437 BNSS (or CrPC for pending matters), anticipatory bail under Section 438, default bail under Section 479 (the equivalent of Section 167(2) CrPC), and statutory bail under special enactments including PMLA, NDPS, UAPA, and COFEPOSA. Conditions of bail — including surety conditions, travel restrictions, and freezing orders — are actively contested.