Criminal Litigation

Trusted Counsel in High-Stakes Criminal Disputes

Keystone Partners’ criminal litigation practice complements the Firm’s white collar and investigations work, focusing on trial advocacy, strategic defence, and victim representation in a wide range of criminal proceedings — including matters involving sector-specific penal regimes, customary practices with criminal-law implications, child sexual offences, and the criminal-law overlay of commercial and regulatory disputes. The team appears regularly before the trial courts, sessions courts, the High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India in proceedings including bail and anticipatory bail applications, quashing and discharge proceedings, framing of charges, trial advocacy, and appeals. The Firm prioritises confidentiality, speed, and clear-headed strategy in matters where the stakes for the client — personal, professional, or commercial — are at their highest.

Service overview

Proven Experience, Outstanding Results

We provide end-to-end criminal litigation services that cover every aspect of the dispute resolution process. Our offerings include:
Defence in Criminal Trials & Appeals
Defending individuals and companies in criminal trials and appeals before trial courts, sessions courts, the High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India, including in matters involving sector-specific penal regimes and overlapping commercial litigation.
Prosecuting bail and anticipatory bail applications, quashing petitions under Section 482 CrPC, discharge applications, and other pre-trial relief — including in proceedings intersecting with regulatory and economic-offence frameworks.
Defending clients in prosecutions under special statutes including the Legal Metrology Act, the Indian Wireless Act and the Indian Telegraph Act, foreign exchange enactments, and other industry-specific penal frameworks.
Acting for complainants and accused in proceedings under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, including in landmark Supreme Court litigation on the interplay between IBC moratoriums and NI Act prosecutions.
Acting for victims and complainants in criminal proceedings — including survivors of child sexual abuse offences under the POCSO Act through the Firm’s pro bono practice, and complainants seeking effective action by investigation agencies in fraud and economic-offence matters.
Acting in litigation challenging customary practices with criminal-law implications, including in proceedings before the High Courts and the Supreme Court.

Representative experience

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