Ajay Arun Mehta

Advisory session

Notice Assessment Session

A notice read properly once, before the reply that has to live with it is drafted.

Book this session30 minutes · ₹5,000 + GST
Who this is for. Anyone holding a live notice under section 148, 148A or 143(2), or a DRC-01 under GST, with the response window running.

What the session examines

A partner reads the papers before the call, so the time goes on the position rather than on the background. These are the checkpoints the session works through.

  • What the notice actually alleges, separated from what it recites
  • Jurisdiction and limitation: whether it was validly issued, and by whom
  • Procedural defects worth taking, and the ones not worth spending the reply on
  • The evidence that has to be on the record before the reply goes in
  • The realistic path — reply, rectification, appeal — and what each costs in time

What you leave with

A defence outline: the points to take, the documents to assemble, and the date each step falls due. It is yours to act on, with or without the firm.

How it runs

  1. Book a slot and pay. The fee is taken at booking, which is what holds the time.
  2. Send the papers at least a day ahead. 30 minutes is not long enough to also read them on the call.
  3. The session itself, with a partner who has already read the file.
  4. The written note follows.

Where the matter turns out to be larger than a session, it continues under our litigation support practice, scoped and priced before any work starts.