Nov 2018 – Sep 2019 · 10 mos · Noida Area, India

Apr 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Handling law enforcement, litigation, recovery, product counsel, business projects, policies, IPR, dispute resolution.
•  Key achievements:
• o Ensured minimal disruption in the business and personal liberty of CxOs and directors by tactfully handling various criminal investigations spread all over India for alleged violation of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, Indian Penal Code, Information Technology Act.
• o Handled issues w.r.t. employees’ unrest, labour union and other labour law issues arising out of mass employee rationalization exercise. Also handled employee abduction case, cheating, fraud, listing/ selling liabilities for intermediary, recovery of INR 15Cr + losses by initiating criminal cases before CBI, EOW, Police which led to arrest of 15+ people.
• o Ensured legal and regulatory compliance of website listings under multiple product categories. This includes legal meteorology, drugs laws, content liability under IT Act & IPC, and product listing level compliance under other laws. Successfully defended IPR litigations, Consumer matters, listing takedown process optimization, intermediary due diligence process optimization.
• o Regulatory Policy advocacy on “Operations for ecommerce Food Business Operators”, “Draft Amendment of Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011”
• About snapdeal:
• Snapdeal.com is India's fastest growing internet and eCommerce company. Snapdeal also operates in financial services, mobile payments, and mobile wallets through "Freecharge" and logistics through "Vulcan Express".
• Funded by marquee investors like Softbank, Alibaba, eBay, Foxconn, Mr. Rattan Tata, Mr. Azim Premji, Intel, Sequoia in addition to other highly sophisticated PE/VC firms across the world.
• As part of Snapdeal's legal team won award of "Best e-Commerce legal team in India" in 2016.

Jun 2015 – Mar 2016 · 9 mos

Apr 2015 – May 2015 · 1 mo

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

• Handled various profiles such as law enforcement issues, IPR infringement matters, Criminal Litigation [WRIT], strategic planing and execution to reduce IPR infringement for all business verticals across the India.
•  Key achievements:
• o successfully filed about 15 criminal cases (FIR) per month for Copyright Infringement across the country, Raids at multiple Cable Networks Operators through court appointed local commissioner, Quashing petition before Allahabad High Court for false FIR against employees by Cable Network Operator
• o Put in place process and guidelines for smooth coordination within internal teams, agencies, law firms

Apr 2006 – Apr 2014 · 8 yrs · Mumbai, India

• o Being first mover of ecommerce and e-payment company in India, had an opportunity to significantly contribute to develop conducive eco system for ecommerce and ePayment
• o Being part of small team, had an opportunity to experience and contribute in every aspect of legal function i.e. contract, compliance, litigation, law enforcement, secretarial, process, policy, business projects etc.,
• o Agreements for nodal bank, logistics, third party vendors
• o Website policies and process such as user agreements, PaisaPay user agreement, privacy policy, eBay Guarantee*, Verified Right Owners Program (VeRO), Prohibited and Restricted Item policy, Feedback policy etc.,
• o Business advisory: Global Easy Buy, Listing Assistance/ review, PaisaPay, Logistics, Outsourcing of customer support operations etc.,
• o Litigation/ Criminal Actions: Filed about 15 FIRs across country which led to arrest of about 30 people. These matters include data breach, financial fraud, employee fraud etc. Ensured minimal disruption in the business and personal liberty of CxOs and directors by tactfully handling criminal investigation for alleged violation of Indian Penal Code, Information Technology Act .
• o Handled about 100 consumer matters across the country. Several IPR litigation.
• o Law enforcement: Initiated Law enforcement relationship management program through which trained about 3000+ police officials including cyber-crime investigators, CBI, CID, CERT- IN. This helped in explaining law enforcement about intermediary and its roles/ responsibilities in a crime involving website.
• o eBay India being an MNC company, had opportunity to learn/ share with APAC/ Global team
• o Received Several reward and recognition from eBay India and eBay APAC

Dec 2005 – Apr 2006 · 4 mos

• Audit, implementation, training of security practices
•  Key deliverable/ responsibilities:
• o Security audit
• o Review of BRD/ PRD for appropriate practices

Jun 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• End to end assistance to the Investigating Officers [IO] in investigation of complaints registered at CCPS Bangalore.
• Training to the various officers from Bangalore CCPS, EOW, Judiciary and City Police about computer technology and cyber investigation.
• Tracking of ISP and other relevant sources and analysis of storage media.
• Provide inputs/ assist in the plan to develop robust system including forensic lab.
•  Key achievements:
• o Investigated various types of cyber crime such as data breach, hacking, financial fraud, obscenity etc.,
• o Seized/ analyzed multiple data storage medium for evidence gathering
• o Trained many police officials to operate computer, information gathering, search of devices etc.,
• o Raided many crime places as part of investigating team

Oct 2002 – Mar 2003 · 5 mos

• Software Engineer

Apr 2002 – Sep 2002 · 5 mos

• Worked on Public Distribution System project of Government of Karnataka