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DECLARATION

This is to certify that the Internship diary report on winter

internship programme was prepared and submitted by
Rumant Sharma under the supervision of Adv. Nitin Arora,
Chamber no.322, Lawyers Chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab.
It was done in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the
completion of the degree of BA.LLB to TPC, University
Institute of Legal Studies, Chandigarh University, comprises
only my general work & due acknowledgement has been
made in the text to all material used. Neither the same work,
nor any part thereof, has earlier been submitted to any
university for any degree.
Name of the Student: Rumant Sharma
University Institute of Legal Studies, Chandigarh University
ACKNOWLEDEGEMENT

It is my proud privilege to express my sincere gratitude to

Advocate Nitin Arora under whose guidance, I have
successfully completed my internship. I have gained a lot
from this experience, Mr. Nitin Arora whose guidance helped
me learn by way of direct exposure.
I am also thankful to the entire law faculty for inspiring
guidance, supervision, expert suggestion and encouragement
which helped me understand the actual practice of law.
CERTIFICATE

The document attached herein is the true copy of the

certificate received in Liew of the work undertaken during
the course of my internship.
INTRODUCTION

The diary gives the detail of the internship program with

Advocate Mr. Nitin Arora under whose guidance, I have
completed my internship. It was a great learning experience
for me. The internship gave me the opportunity to have an
insight the judicial system and its working. I visited District
and Sessions Court, Chandigarh regarding different matter
fixed in courts, where I got an opportunity to observe court
proceedings.
It was a valuable insight into the actual working of courts and
lawyers. I was able to learn about working of a lawyer's
office, study of case files of running as well as old cases which
had already been decided.
It was a rich experience of working of courts and our judicial
system and the role of lawyer in delivery of justice.
I started interning with the advocate from January 3, 2023.
His chamber is located at District and Sessions Court,
Chandigarh. From the very first day, I was given a chance to
observe how office work is carried out. I was advised to take
note anything that was worth noting happening in the court
room.
DAILY REPORT

Day 1
Date- 03|01|2023
Entry 1

Place: - District and Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Course of Events:
At around 9AM I reached at session and district court,
Chandigarh, Punjab for my internship with Advocate Nitin
Arora. His chamber no. is 322. I went to the chamber I
introduced myself to Sir and his associates. Sir told me about
the rules and regulation, proper decorum that is needed to
follow in the court premises and court room especially. He
told what to do and what not to do in the court room. He
asked me about my future plans and so I told.
Sir introduced me to his clerical assistant and told me that if I
have any doubt, I can always ask her. Later, I tagged along
with her, and I was shown the copy branch of the court as
well as the filling office. Later I went along with the junior
advocates which have already been working in that office and
went to notary office with them. After a while all of us came
back to the chamber office.
Entry 2

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyers Chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and learning:

 In the chamber Advocate sir asked the junior to prepare
a bail bond/surety bond for a client.
 The format was printed by using office laptop then the
name and the amount were put. The amount was
50,000 so with that copy of registry documents of a
vehicle with estimate value on insurance more than that
of 50,000 and identity proof were attached to it.
 This application was to be signed by two sureties and
once it was done the same was taken by junior for
applying it in the court.

Day 2
 Date- 4|01|2023
Entry 3

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyers chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab
Observation and Learning:
 In the morning each occupant of the chamber had some
tasks to do. So, I as an intern assisted them with the
tasks and learned the way of working of the office
during a busy day.
 Juniors were busy getting the exemptions prepared and
applying them in the courts.
 I observed that a ticket is to be stamped on the
application and it acted as the court fee. Such ticket was
dated with pen with date on which it is applied.
 Advocate sir was busy preparing the cross for a case set
for today.
 After some time, I went along with Advocate sir to the
courtroom on third floor.

Entry 4
Place:
Court of Ms. Swati Sehgal, Additional Session Judge
courtroom no 20, District and Sessions Court, Chandigarh

In the matter of:

State vs Abhishek and Others

Matter is:
It was a matter of threat and grievous hurt for which the
victim is present in the court and giving his statement.

Stage of Matter:
Examination-in-chief of witnesses

Act and Sections involved:

 Section 503 IPC
 Section 320 IPC
 Section 506,326 IPC

Observation and Learning:

 Before entering the Courtroom Advocate sir checked the
cause list on the outer wall of the courtroom in which all
the matters held for today were listed.
 After entering the courtroom Advocate sir reached to
reader sir sitting in front of the judge.
 Two of the witnesses were also present from the
accused side and two i.e., father and his daughter were
present in the courtroom.
 Investigating officer was also present as her presence
was crucial for the court proceeding.
 The public prosecutor started with her remarks by
stating the facts of the case.
 Then after the due permission of the Hon'ble Judge the
public prosecutor started asking questions with one of
the victims and the victim statement is recorded within
the provisions of CrPC.
 The father of the victim in his statement said that he
confiscated the phone of one of the accused’s
associates. Later, he received a threat call on the same
phone as the accused was aware of the situation.
 The statement was given out in Hindi but was Tran
scripted into English by the judge and typed down by
the writer (steno).
 After all the statement was given the public prosecutor
gave the narration of the matter himself and prayed
before the Hon'ble Judge to give proper punishment to
all the accused.
  Statement of the investigating officer was also written
down. After this next date of hearing was given as not all
the witnesses were present i.e., the accused himself.
 The defence counsel also filed an application to get an
official copy of the statement of all the victims.

Day 3
Date: -05|01|2023

Entry 5

Place:
Court of Ms. Renu Goyal Additional Session Judge court room
no.4, District and Sessions Court, Chandigarh

In the matter of:

State vs. Mohan Lal and Ors
(This tells us that the matter was criminal in nature)

Stage of matter: Production Warrant

Matter is: -
It is a case of Application for exemption from personal
appearance of accused and issuance of the production
warrants of the applicant.

Act and Sections Involved:

 Section 21 N.D.P.S. Act
 Section 323,324, 506,148,201 of I.P.C.

Observation and Learning:

 The accused has been charged under NDPS act and
different section of IPC. The accused side i.e., the
defence counsel is denying it.
 All of the accused has been arrested. Out of the 3
accused 2 has been granted bail from the high court and
one accused has been send to judicial custody.
 All the accused were supposed to be present at the date
of the hearing of the case. While one is present other
one is presented by the jail authorities and the third has
filed an application for exemption from personal
appearance through his counsel.
 The Hon'ble Judge has taken the application and
approved the exemption of one of the accused. After
hearing both the public prosecutor and defence counsel
the Hon'ble judge gave the next date of hearing.
 After hearing the proceeding, I learnt about a different
act and its major section. I was able to understand the
 different cases. And how to note down the points given
out by the client.

Entry 6

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyers chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 In the chamber a client entered who had been in
contact with Advocate Sir and came to the office as
directed.
 Sir asked the junior to take out a copy of Vakala Nama
from the cabinet.
 The client was asked to sigh the Vakala Nama and at the
same time his identity proofs were being photocopied.
 After that some payment was given by the client in cash
and he was assured that his work would be done. After
this when the client asked if he could leave was sent by
Advocate sir.
Day 4
Date 06|01|2023
Entry 7

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyers chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 In the Chamber a junior advocate was asked to prepare
an application for putting up the case file.
 The application when printed was stamped and signed
was taken to the court.
 I was also taught the process to apply the copy of a case
file and how the cost is to be calculated.

Entry 8

Place:
Court of Sh. Mayank Marwaha Civil Judge Jr. Division Court
Room No.-9 District Court Chandigarh
In the matter of: -
Ankur vs Sneha

Stage of matter: Prayer before the court

Matter is-
It was a suit for of Divorce and Maintenance which has been
filled by the wife against her husband.

Act Involved: -
Section 13,25 of H.M.A. (The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955)

Observation and Learning:

 The wife’s counsel prayed before the Hon'ble Judge to
grant her divorce and permanent alimony of a sum of 20
lakhs.
 According to her, before the marriage the petitioner
family made it clear that the petitioner will work and live
an independent life.
 Also, that the marriage was solemnized as per Hindu
rites and ritual. After one week of her stay at the
matrimonial home the petitioner saw the true colour of
her husband and husband's family. They stopped the
petitioner from doing many things as the petitioner
wanted to work. The husband's family stopped her from
 re-joining her work. Even so the husband's family took
away all of her educational certificates.
 The petitioner counsel further prayed to grant the
petitioner immediate divorce as she could not carry on
with her life.
 The respondent counsel prayed before the Hon'ble
Judge to grant the respondent Restitution of Conjugal
right under section 9 of the Hindu Marriage act as the
wife had left the matrimonial home within the week as
the petitioner had mis-judged the respondent family.
 Then after hearing both the parties the Hon'ble Judge
decided to listen the rest of the case on another day.

Day 5
Date 07|01|2023
Entry 9

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyer’s chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 There was a reference diary being used in the chamber
on which the previous date, next date as well as the
name of the court was updated.
  The diary provided the convenience to all the members
of the chamber in case advocate sir were not present
and it helped avoiding the situation of missing out any
date.
 The diary was updated on daily basis and could be done
by anyone working in the office.

Entry 10

Place:
Court of Ms. Justice Pratima Singla, District and Sessions
Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

In the matter of:

Hariom Steel vs. Shri Dhan Lakshmi Steel

Stage of matter:
Evidence

Matter is: -
It is a case of dishonour of cheque due to insufficiency of
funds. And till now the company has not received its
payment.
Act and Section involved:
• Section 138 Negotiable Instrument Act.
• Section 3 of the Evidence Act.
• Order 18 Rule 4(2) of the CPC.

Observation and Learning:

 In this case the cheque was presented within a period
of its validity of 3 months. However, once notice is
served and amount is not paid within stipulated period,
the cause of action prosecute starts. Accused counsel
was praying before Hon’ble judge for more time as the
counsel was gathering more evidence related to the
case.
 After a few minutes of discussion and debate Hon’ble
judge took a small break and went to her office.
 After 20 minutes court again started. This time again
some new facts were shown in the court room. About
which the accused counsel had no idea of. The accused
side asked the other side to give him the copy of new
evidence. Then he again prayed before the hon’ble
judge to give it to the counsel.
 After some time of going through the new evidence was
not known to him. A long discussion took place and after
that the Hon’ble judge passed an order to give counsel
side answer after 2 weeks from today.
  After hearing the proceeding, I observed that court
proceeding was covering many cases on daily basis, and
the matters of many cases were disposed immediately.
 Throughout watching the cases progress I realized how
fast court processes are, as the magistrate opened the
trial and immediately heard from both prosecutor and
defendant. I observed that the magistrate generally
maintained eye contact with whomever was presenting
their argument centred all his attention on them.

Day 6
Date 09|01|2023
Entry 11

Place: Judicial Courts Complex, Sector 76, Sahibzada Ajit

Singh Nagar, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 The Court environment in Mohali was a little different
from that of Chandigarh court. The infrastructure of the
building differed in ways like parking was underground,
hallways were longer, the entry of courtrooms differed
on each floor.
 Sir after having a cup of tea in his chamber went to meet
his associate and I tagged along with him while carrying
the files and my diary.
  After then we went to a courtroom on third floor and
met some client, sir went into the courtroom and after
he came out asked them to wait if they are called in for
their proceeding.

Entry 12

Place: - District and Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 While I was going from court parking area to our
chamber room someone asked me about where traffic
challans are to be submitted.
 Since I only had a clue that it’s a possibility and were not
aware of the whole process, I called the munshi of our
office asking about the same.
 After talking to her on the phone, I brought those
people with myself so that I could introduce them to
her.
 Once that was done, I followed the same routine as
usual. Later, during the lunch break I asked one of the
juniors about the process of getting the challan
submitted.
 I learned that it was somewhat similar as filing a fresh
case. Also, I was told that why reputed lawyer doesn’t
 prefer getting it done by themself as it stains their image
among others.

Day 7
Date 10|01|2023
Entry 13

Place: Lawyer’s Chamber, Judicial Courts Complex, Sector 76,

Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 I reached early and waited for sir to arrive, once
advocate sir got there, we entered the chamber.
 Sir carried some files with himself which he placed on
the table, I asked sir and took a file folder to read.
 When I was done reading sir asked me to write down an
application for exemption. I had a photo of the
application from earlier in my phone which I used as
example.
 Once done writing the application, I took a photo of it
and then handed it over to sir so that he could check it.
 After that I stamped the application, and I went to the
courtroom to apply. Once the matters in Mohali court
were dealt with, we came to District court Chandigarh.
Entry 14

Place: Court Complex, District and Sessions Court,

Chandigarh, Punjab
Observation and Learning:
 As I reached our chamber at District and Sessions Court,
Chandigarh, I was asked to escort a client to the
courtroom for his attendance and collect the cost which
he was going to receive with the direction of the judge.
 After waiting the opposition party showed up and with
the direction of the court handed over an amount of
seven hundred rupees in cash. This was later submitted
to Advocate Sir.
 After this I stayed in the Chamber reading the case files,
while sir was busy on the phone communicating with
the clients.

Day 8
Date 11|01|2023
Entry 15

Place:
Chamber no.322, Lawyers chamber complex, District and
Sessions Court, Chandigarh, Punjab
Observation and Learning:
 As I reached our chamber it came to my knowledge that
for one of the matters set for today, the parties were
directed to mediation by the court.
 So, I along with a junior went to the mediation centre
which was in the same building as that of notary office
just on second floor.
 We were just supposed to check if the parties showed
up for mediation and after mediation process escort our
client to the chamber.

Entry 16

Place:
Courts complex, District and Sessions Court, Chandigarh,
Punjab

In the matter of:

Madrupa Ram Prop. M/S Hariom Steel vs. Ganpat Prop. M/S
Shri Dhan Lakshmi Steel

Stage of matter:
Evidence by way of Affidavit
Matter is: -
It is a case of dishonour of cheque due to insufficiency of
funds. And till now the company has not received its
payment.

Act and Section involved:

• Section 138 Negotiable Instrument Act.
• Section 3 of the Evidence Act.
• Order 18 Rule 4(2) of the CPC.

Observation and Learning:

 A cheque was presented within a period of its validity of
3 months. However, once notice is served and amount is
not paid within stipulated period, the cause of action
prosecute starts.
 Accused counsel was praying before Hon’ble judge for
more time as the counsel was gathering more evidence
related to the case.
 After a few minutes of discussion and debate Hon’ble
judge took a small break and went to her office. After 20
minutes court again started.
 The accused side asked the other side to give him the
copy of new evidence. Then he again prayed before the
hon’ble judge to give it to the counsel.
  A long discussion took place and after that the Hon’ble
judge passed an order to give counsel side answer after
1 month from today.
 After hearing the proceeding, I observed that court
proceeding was covering many cases on daily basis but
for most of it new date of hearing was being given out.

Day 9
Date 12|01|2023
Entry 17

Place: Judicial Courts Complex, Sector 76, Sahibzada Ajit

Singh Nagar, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 I reached the court early as usual just because I did not
want to miss out any learning opportunity and get the
most productivity out of it.
 When advocate sir reached, we altogether entered the
chamber and shortly after that went to the court
complex.
 Sir gave me some files to hold as walked through the
corridor and asked to hand over different files from time
to time.
  While some to the clients were asked to wait of the
whole day some were shortly freed to leave.

Entry 18

Place: Court Complex, District and Sessions Court,

Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 When I was on our way to the chamber, I received a call
from the munshi, and we were asked to attend to a
client standing in front of a courtroom.
 Also, I was asked to inform if our case has come up, so
that advocate sir would reach there when required.

Day 10
Date 13/01/2023
Entry 19

Place: Court Complex, District and Sessions Court,

Chandigarh, Punjab

In the matter of:

Jaspal Kaur Versus Didar Singh and Others
Stage of matter:
Waiting for reply to the application

Matter is: -
The applicant on the last date of hearing applied an
application in front of the court seeking permission from the
Hon’ble court to file a fresh suit.

Observation and Learning:

 I entered the courtroom with the junior and saw that
the judge wasn’t there.
 So, the junior reached the reader mam and asked about
the case.
 Reader mam asked to check the tray in which all the
order copies are stacked.
 I learned that for such application to be approved cost is
to be paid and the same is mentioned in the application.

Entry 20
Place: Court Complex, District and Sessions Court,
Chandigarh, Punjab

Matter is: - Superdari to get the vehicle out of the custody.

Observation and Learning:
 The client and his brother were sitting in the chamber
waiting for advocate sir.
 As the conversation started, I heard that our client’s bike
was falsely taken away from him by the police just on
the basis of suspicion.
 Sir asked the junior to prepare a file of superdari bail
bond and apply it in the filing branch.
 I assisted the junior and did most of the work so that I
could learn how its done.
 I learned that through superdari custody of something is
handed over to a person till the next order and the
person receiving the vehicle gives an undertaking on his
behalf or on behalf of a person who has authorised him.

Day 11
Date 16|01|2023
Entry 21

Place: Judicial Courts Complex, Sector 76, Sahibzada Ajit

Singh Nagar, Punjab

In the matter of:

State of Punjab Versus Mohal Lal and Ors.
Stage of matter:
Applying for exemption and issuance of the production
warrants.

Observation and Learning:

 The accused was supposed to be present at the date of
the hearing of the case.
 On the application it was mentioned that the accused
was out on bail in this matter but was behind the bars
for some other offence.
 The court must wait till further orders were given by the
other court.

Entry 22
Place: Court Complex, District and Sessions Court,
Chandigarh, Punjab

Observation and Learning:

 We were sitting in the chamber reading case files. As I
observed most of the matters were disposed or decided.
within 2-3 years of time period.
 After that we went on a walk in the corridor with
advocate sir and visited some other advocate’s office.
 From their conversation we learned the process of
getting a chamber in session court as well as the high
court and difference between the two.
CONCLUSION

Summarizing it all, I would like to deliver the message that

the real legal practice is completely different from the
theoretical version of law which we learn about through
books. Without exposure to the actual working of the
profession, one cannot gain the experience that is requires to
progress in his field and attain success. Through books we get
the body of law, practice of law gives it the soul required to
run that body.
I was amazed to see how lawyers can use the law to their
benefit and their opposition by drafting turn the case around
using the same law. I also observed that law is constantly
developing and changing as per the applicably.
This Internship helped me expand the horizons of my
knowledge and happy I chose to spend my time in court
trying to learn as much as I can while avoiding wasting my
time on other things that can wait in life. Cause if I master
this early on in my life, I would be given the opportunity to
do the other things and in a better way.