Get the paper
Certified copy of the FIR, the arrest memo, the bank's lien-marking letter, the dishonour memo — whichever applies. A lawyer cannot argue from a description of a document. Photograph everything and send it on WhatsApp.
Criminal defence & cyber crime lawyer in Gurgaon
An FIR has been registered. An account has been frozen. An ED or police summons has arrived. An arrest is hours away. Advocate Rajat Kadyan handles bail, cyber crime, economic offences and criminal defence across Gurugram and Haryana — and answers the phone at 3 a.m.
What the first call gets you
- Response
- Same-day filing on urgent bail
and de-freeze applications - Consultation
- Free, confidential, taken by
the advocate himself - Fees
- Quoted in writing before
any work begins - Hours
- Open 24 hours, all week
The first hour
What you do today decides what your lawyer can do next month
Criminal matters are won and lost on timing. Statements given without counsel, notices answered too late, and bail applications filed on the wrong ground are the three things that most often turn a defensible case into a hard one.
Say nothing on record without counsel
You are obliged to cooperate with an investigation. You are not obliged to sign a statement you have not read, or to explain a transaction on the spot. Ask for time and call a lawyer first.
Call before the deadline, not after
Anticipatory bail is far easier before arrest. A cheque notice is worthless on day 31. A frozen account is easier to release in week one than in month six. Early is cheaper in every sense.
Practice areas
Seventeen areas, one practice
Criminal defence, cyber crime and economic offences, with the family and sensitive matters that run alongside them. Work outside these areas is referred on rather than taken half-heartedly.
Cyber & economic offences
The document-heavy end of the practice — where the case is built from bank records, transaction trails and forensic reports.
Cyber crime lawyer
UPI and online fraud, IT Act FIRs, sextortion, crypto scams, hacking and data theft — for the accused and for victims.
Read more →Frozen bank account release
Accounts lien-marked on an NCRP or cyber cell reference, released through the IO, the Magistrate or the High Court.
Read more →ED & PMLA matters
Section 50 summons, provisional attachment, arrest under Section 19 and bail against the twin conditions of Section 45.
Read more →Money laundering
Section 3 PMLA defence — scheduled offence, proceeds of crime and knowing involvement, contested on the transaction trail.
Read more →EOW cases
Investment and builder fraud, banking fraud, Look Out Circulars, and quashing of commercial disputes registered as FIRs.
Read more →Cheating & fraud
Section 318 BNS, formerly 420 IPC. Whether there was dishonest intention at the outset, or a deal that simply failed.
Read more →Cheque bounce
Section 138 NI Act notices, complaints and defence, on deadlines that do not reopen once missed.
Read more →Criminal defence
From the FIR through chargesheet, discharge, trial and appeal, before the Gurgaon courts and the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
Criminal lawyer
Trial defence across BNS, NDPS, Arms Act and PMLA matters, from investigation to judgment and appeal.
Read more →Bail & anticipatory bail
Pre-arrest protection under Section 482 BNSS, regular bail, default bail on the 60 or 90 day expiry, and interim protection.
Read more →Theft & robbery
Sections 303 to 317 BNS, where force and the number of accused decide whether bail is a right or a contest.
Read more →Kidnapping & abduction
Sections 137 to 143 BNS, including the elopement FIRs that make up most of these cases, and protection petitions.
Read more →FIR quashing & offences
Section 528 BNSS petitions where a complaint should never have become a criminal case, and the offences reference table.
Read more →Sensitive & family matters
Handled discreetly, and never for both sides of the same dispute. Representation is available to complainants and to those accused.
Rape & sexual offences
Sections 63 to 79 BNS — representation for complainants pursuing a prosecution, and defence for those accused.
Read more →POCSO cases
Special Court matters under the 2012 Act — family representation and compensation, and defence within the Act's safeguards.
Read more →Crime against women
Domestic violence, Section 85 BNS cruelty, dowry, stalking, maintenance and workplace harassment under the POSH Act.
Read more →Divorce & family law
Mutual consent and contested divorce, maintenance, custody and the criminal matters that run alongside.
Read more →Marriage registration
Hindu Marriage Act registration, Special Marriage Act solemnisation, court marriage and protection petitions.
Read more →Find your situation
What to do in the next hour
The situations that account for most of the calls this office receives — with the legal time limit that applies and the first steps to take.
Act today
My bank account has been frozen
Section 106 BNSS (formerly 102 CrPC) · NCRP-linked lien marking
- Ask your bank in writing for the freeze reference and the police unit that sent it — they are obliged to tell you.
- Collect statements covering the disputed credit and any invoice or proof of the transaction's legitimate origin.
- An application goes to the investigating officer and, if needed, to the Magistrate — proportionate release of the undisputed balance is often achievable.
Before you are called in
An FIR has been filed against me
Section 173 BNSS (FIR) · Section 35(3) BNSS notice to appear
- Obtain a certified copy of the FIR — no strategy is possible without the exact sections invoked.
- Do not give or sign any statement without counsel present. Cooperating and self-incriminating are not the same thing.
- Assess anticipatory bail immediately if the offence is non-bailable, and consider quashing if the FIR discloses no offence.
Before arrest
I'm afraid of being arrested
Section 482 BNSS (formerly Section 438 CrPC)
- Send whatever you have — FIR copy, notice, complaint, or even the police station's name and the caller's number.
- An application under Section 482 BNSS can usually be drafted and filed the same working day before the Sessions Court, Gurugram.
- Do not leave the jurisdiction or ignore calls; both are used against you when the application is argued.
24 hours
Someone has just been arrested
Article 22(2) of the Constitution · Section 58 BNSS
- Note the police station, the time of arrest and the arrest memo details, and ask for a copy of the memo.
- A bail application should be ready for the first production — the earliest and often the best opportunity.
- Call immediately: the clock here is measured in hours, not days.
Before you attend
I have received an ED summons
Section 50 PMLA — statements are recorded on oath and are admissible against you
- Do not respond to the agency before speaking to counsel, and do not alter or delete any record — it is detectable and a separate offence.
- Assemble every document named in the summons so your answers are documentary rather than reconstructed under pressure.
- Attend on the date with counsel engaged, and read the statement carefully before you sign it.
3 working days
Money was taken from my account
RBI limited-liability framework · Helpline 1930 · cybercrime.gov.in
- Call 1930 or file at cybercrime.gov.in now — the first hours give a real chance of the money being held before withdrawal.
- Inform your bank in writing the same day and keep the acknowledgement; it protects your liability position.
- A follow-up complaint and, where the amount justifies it, court proceedings can push recovery along.
30 days
A cheque has bounced
Section 138(b) Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
- Locate the bank's cheque return memo — the 30-day clock runs from the date you received it.
- The legal notice must be drafted correctly and served provably; defects here sink complaints later.
- After the notice, the drawer gets 15 days to pay, and the complaint must be filed in the following 30 days.
Move early
A divorce or dowry case
Section 85 BNS (formerly 498A IPC) · Hindu Marriage Act · DV Act, 2005
- Gather the marriage certificate, communications and any complaint or notice already received.
- If a dowry harassment FIR has been registered, anticipatory bail for those named is usually the first priority.
- Decide early between the mutual consent and contested routes — the difference in time and cost is substantial.
Statutory time limits
The deadlines that quietly decide criminal cases
These are not office policies — they are limits fixed by statute, and courts apply them strictly. Most clients who arrive too late arrive because nobody told them a clock was running.
24 hours
Person taken into custody
Must be produced before a Magistrate within 24 hours, excluding travel time. Bail should be moved at that first production.
Art. 22(2) · §58 BNSS
3 working days
Online financial fraud reported by a victim
Report to the bank within three working days for zero liability on an unauthorised third-party transaction. Report on 1930 immediately.
RBI limited-liability circular
30 days
Cheque returned unpaid
Legal notice must reach the drawer within 30 days of the dishonour memo. Miss it and that cheque's cause of action is gone.
§138(b) NI Act
15 + 30 days
After the notice period expires
The drawer gets 15 days to pay; the complaint must then be filed within the next 30 days.
§138(c) · §142 NI Act
60 / 90 days
Investigation incomplete, accused in custody
If no chargesheet is filed in time, default bail becomes an indefeasible right — but only if claimed before the chargesheet lands.
§187 BNSS (§167 CrPC)
As stated
Notice to appear from police
Appear, but with counsel. Ignoring the notice converts a summons situation into an arrest situation.
§35(3) BNSS (§41A CrPC)
180 days
ED provisional attachment
Attachment lapses unless confirmed by the Adjudicating Authority within 180 days. It has to be contested there, not deferred to the trial.
§5 PMLA
No fixed limit
Account frozen on a cyber complaint
There is no automatic expiry. Release happens only when someone applies for it — the sooner the better.
§106 BNSS (§102 CrPC)
30 / 60 days
Appeal against conviction
Limitation runs from the date of judgment. Condonation is possible but never guaranteed.
Limitation Act, 1963
General information current as of 2026, following the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam replacing the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act from 1 July 2024. Time limits vary with the facts of a case and are not legal advice.
About the practice
Courtroom work, not a call centre
Advocate Rajat Kadyan & Associates is a criminal defence and cyber law practice based in Civil Lines, Gurugram, appearing regularly before the Gurgaon District Court, the Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, and the Supreme Court of India.
The practice was built around a gap that still exists in Gurugram's legal market: cyber crime is prosecuted by specialists and defended by generalists. Freezing orders, NCRP-linked complaints, digital evidence, payment-trail reconstruction and certification under Section 63 BSA are technical areas, and a defence that treats them as ordinary cheating cases tends to lose ground early.
The other half of the job is telling clients when not to litigate. Some matters are better compounded, settled or withdrawn than fought for four years, and you will be told which category yours falls into at the first consultation rather than after the first invoice.
EnrolmentBar Council of Punjab & Haryana
Practising inGurugram & Haryana
ChamberCivil Lines, Gurugram
HoursOpen 24 hours
Where we appear
District & Sessions Court, Gurugram · Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh · Supreme Court of India · Patiala House and Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi · Family and consumer courts in Gurugram.
Haryana cyber cells
Gurugram, Faridabad, Panchkula, Ambala, Hisar, Rohtak, Karnal, Sonipat, Panipat, Rewari, Jhajjar, Mahendragarh, Nuh, Palwal, Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra, Kaithal, Jind, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Bhiwani and Charkhi Dadri.
How a matter runs
From the first call to the final order
A deliberate sequence, because criminal work rewards order and punishes improvisation.
Call or WhatsApp, at any hour
Describe what happened in ordinary language. No legal vocabulary needed. If it is genuinely urgent — an arrest in progress, a hearing tomorrow morning, an account frozen today — say so at the start and it is triaged immediately.
Free assessment of the actual position
The papers are read, the provisions checked, and you are told what is realistically achievable on your timeline. Including, where that is the honest answer, that the case is weak or that a settlement serves you better than a trial.
A written strategy and a written fee
What will be filed, in which forum, on which ground, and what it costs. Agreed before any drafting starts, so there is no discussion about money in the middle of a hearing week.
Filing and appearance
Applications are drafted and filed, and appearances are made by the advocate you spoke to — not passed down to a junior you have never met. You are told the outcome of each date the same day.
Follow-through to closure
Bail conditions complied with, orders collected, accounts actually credited, files closed properly. The matter is finished when your problem is finished, not when the order is passed.
Gurugram localities served
Local courts, and the whole of Haryana
Civil Lines
Old Gurgaon
DLF Phase 1–5
Cyber City
Sushant Lok
South City 1 & 2
Golf Course Road
Golf Course Ext. Road
Sohna Road
MG Road
Sector 14–29
Sector 48–57
New Gurgaon 76–95
Manesar
Sohna
Pataudi
Farukhnagar
Badshahpur
Before you call
Questions people ask first
Is the first consultation really free?
Yes. The first conversation — on the phone, on WhatsApp or at the Civil Lines chamber — costs nothing and carries no obligation. You will get a read on your position and an indication of cost before any engagement is discussed.
How quickly can an anticipatory bail application be filed in Gurgaon?
Where the papers are available and the facts are clear, an application under Section 482 BNSS can usually be drafted and filed on the same working day before the Sessions Court at Gurugram. Weekend and holiday emergencies are handled through the duty magistrate arrangement.
My bank account was frozen by a cyber cell. How long does release take?
It depends on the disputed amount and how many complaints are linked to the account. A single complaint with a cooperative investigating officer can resolve in weeks; multiple complaints across states take considerably longer, and partial release is usually the realistic objective.
I have received an ED summons. What should I do first?
Call counsel before you respond to the agency, and do not alter or delete any record. A statement under Section 50 PMLA is recorded on oath and is admissible against you, so preparation before the appearance matters more than anything that follows.
Can you guarantee bail or an acquittal?
No, and neither can anyone else. What you can reasonably expect from counsel is an honest assessment of your prospects, competent preparation and appearance on every date. Treat a guaranteed result as a reason to walk away.
I live outside Haryana. Can you still act for me?
Yes. Consultations by phone and video, documents by WhatsApp or email, and appearance on your behalf where personal presence is not legally required. Cyber and economic offence complaints are often registered in a district the client has never visited.
From the blog
Recent writing
How to File a Cyber Crime Complaint in Gurgaon: A Step-by-Step Guide
Cybercrime is increasingly prevalent in today's digital age, and victims often feel uncertain about how to seek justice. If you are in Gurgaon and need to report a cybercrime, this guide walks you through the process.
What to Do If You Need to File an FIR in Gurugram
Filing a First Information Report is the first step in reporting a cognizable offence. This guide sets out the process in Gurugram, and what to do if the police refuse to register it.
How to file Cheque Bounce Case in Gurugram – Complete legal Process
A bounced cheque is recoverable, but only inside a chain of statutory deadlines that do not reopen. Here is the process, the timelines, and where complaints usually go wrong.