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After a while after having heard commotion in the room my mother
also woke up and become surprised to see as to why my father was
walking in the room in the middle of the night? At the first
instance my mother thought that he might be worried for some court
case listed on the next day but after seeing him sweating and
complaining of pain in the chest, she got scared and rushed to my
room adjacent to hers to catch hold of me to arrange immediate
medical assistance. Unfortunately by the time we both arrived in a
room after having brief discussion lasted for a mere second about
the health of my father, we both remained stunned after seeing
that my father was lying on the bed flat with his mouth and eyes
wide open. Finding no other way, we both being alone in the house
tried to lift him but we couldn’t do it despite our repeated
attempts as all of sudden my father had become very heavy. Finding
no other alternative my mother ran towards the neighbors and
banged their doors hard with all her energy to provide her all
timely assistance to lift my father to the car parked on the
ground floor. Within seconds all our neighbors arrived and lifted
my father collectively and made him lie down at the rear seat of
the car. In this page I would like to thank all those persons
being part of our neighbor’s who contributed their bit in saving
the life of my late father. With great efforts of all our
neighbors he was finally lied down in the car after having been
lifted up from the first floor of our house to the ground floor
where our car was parked and was taken to the nearby hospital.
Unfortunately despite best efforts of the Doctors present in the
hospital life of my father could not be saved. I still remember it
was around 4 AM in the morning when people had come out of their
homes for morning walks and starring at me as to why I am crying
horse at the corner of the road? At that moment only one question
was popping up in my mind as to why god has been unkind to me more
especially when I about to lend my shoulder to him in his work.
After the death of my father everything came
to a halt both at his office and in his home due to my being a
novice in the profession and who having spent only 3 years in the
profession all of sudden given 3000 files to handle. Not only
this, I was even asked for the court files by the same clients who
never tired of talking in praise of my father one after another in
his life time. At the first instance I could not believe that
these are really those people who bend on their knees before my
father to provide them his legal expertise in the court of law but
after persistence and regular advice of my mother regarding their
stakes in litigation, I understood things slowly. Besides all
those clients there even came a major decrease in the list of our
relatives and friends probably on a reason that we might not ask
their assistance on some point of time after my father. I still
remember the days when I would leave for the court without having
any penny in pocket and for a mere hundred rupee note for daily
expanse I was made to hear many things from the people around me.
Not only this, there were instances wherein I have been named a
duffer, who can’t earn his living by non other then my own dear
ones.
I still remember instances where I found
myself stuck in some typical stages of the cases in court of law
having no one around to assist or to guide me. Still with the
assistance of the fellow Advocates and my sheer determination to
learn I tried to cope up things slowly but couldn’t as I lacked
confidence due to my age and experience. There were instances when
I felt to end up my life as I feel there is no hope of my being an
Advocate but with the constant advice of my clerks and dear ones
to wait for the right time i stuck to the profession with the hope
that sooner or later things will change around me with my sheer
hard work and zeal to excel in my profession. I still remember
that for months I couldn’t pay the salaries of my office staff but
I am thankful to all of them who didn’t run away from me and kept
on managing things of their own without complaining anything. At
this moment it would be appropriate to even name my bookseller,
who kept on supplying me the books without asking anything in
return despite the fact that his bill for the books kept on piling
months after months. There was a time when it crossed one lakh
rupees. Today at this stage, I would like to pay a sincere thanks
to all these people without whom I would have been no where in my
profession. With the blessing and help of all these people I some
how managed things of my own for about year or so. Luckily in the
year 2003, I got two murder cases where the accused were awarded
life imprisonment by the lower courts for which appeal had to be
filed before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court against their
conviction. Surprising in one of two cases, the first one relates
to a women who was charged with the murder of her own husband and
in the second one murder took place in the area called Gole,
Market,
Delhi,
India during
the time
of Holy festival.
On the first day of hearing in the very
first case as the case came up for admission before the Hon'ble
Division Bench, Delhi High Court, India but before I could stand
up and say a single word, the Judges pronounced “No merit in
appeal, dismissed”. The following order created ruckus in my mind
as that was my first big case and even a stepping stone towards
success, I jumped over the dice and started arguing my matter
despite the fact that files of the matter had already been thrown
away by the judges at the corner of their table and who even asked
the court master to call out the next matter. As the situation was
do or die for me I paid deaf ear to the other counsel who
pressurized me to give him the way to plead his case before the
respected bench. After 15 minutes of continues argument, I finally
made one respected judge out of the two convinced that there was
merits in my appeal and there were errors apparent on the judgment
pronounced by the lower court. After realizing my initial success
in making judges convinced, I became more vocal before the bench,
wherein I have been asked to reply numerous questions by the
judges related to the case in question, which all were replied to
the best of my knowledge to the satisfaction of the judges. After
listening everything from my end, the respectable judges asked the
public prosecutor as to what objections he had in letting the
convicts out on bail. The public prosecutor tried his best to
dissuade judges that there was no appeal in the case and further
appealed that it should be dismissed out rightly. After taking
note of the submissions made by the public prosecutor, the judges
paused a while and finally remarked appeal admitted and the
accused is being released on bail for furnishing certain
formalities before the Trial Court below. As I listened this I
couldn’t believe for several minutes that it was me who argued the
matter and who got the accused out of the jail on such heinous
charges. After coming out of the court room, same people who were
doubtful about my capabilities embraced me and fall on my feet,
which I could not believe for several minutes as I was like god to
them. The whole night I couldn’t sleep properly and wished to have
my father around to share the moments of happiness. The happiness
which I got from the case gave me inner happiness and courage to
face any situation even in real life. Since that day there
remained no dearth of work for me. Today the same man who dared to
stand while uttering a single word in the court of law stands
alone in front of battery of lawyers who appear against him in
many of the cases. Today Rakesh Prabhakar & Com. apart from being
retained by the some of the major companies for legal work is also
actively involved for the betterment of the children suffering
from anorectal disorders since birth through an NGO called
caremycolostomy, which is having support from world over. To
support this cause, I have himself filed one writ petition in the
Delhi High Court wherein I tried to persuade the Centre / and
State Government of India to come out in support of these children
being no less then a healthy babies. For further details of this
case the viewer can log on to the official site of the
organization i.e. www.caremycolostomy.org, which is kind enough to
include my name in its founder members along with some of the
prominent personalities from world over.
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Dart Air Services, Dart Air International
and Dart Logistic: A leading couriers company in Delhi, Mumbai and
Panipat (India) having its offices situated in UK and Europe,
where entire work of recruitments, drafting agreements,
collaborations, amalgamation etc. has been assigned to us.
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View International an ISO 2001 certified
company having vide variety of works in India right from film
distribution and financing to shares and exports.
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Inspirations: A multi facet company dealing
with home furnishing all over India catering demands of almost
every 5 star hotels in India.
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Sage medicos: An upcoming pharmaceutical
company having its operations from Daryaganj, Delhi, India. Here
the work of patents has been granted to us.
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Sage Herbals: being a subsidiary of the sage
medicos.
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Skin Institute: A Hospital cum college which
takes not only the care of the skin related ailment of their
patients but even involved in research programmes with the active
participation of its students in India.
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View Freight Services Private Ltd: One of
the leading upcoming freight forwarding company in India and
abroad. Here the work of consumer courts along with drafting
agreements, joint ventures etc has been assigned to us.
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Tradex USA Corporation: A leading handicraft
company having incorporated in Newyork, USA is also one of our
esteemed client.
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Global Worldwide: A Leading export company
having its network worldwide.
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Kashiva Exports: A leading export company
having its network worldwide.
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Caremycolostomy - NGO: A body of persons
comprises of members from every walk of life formed with the sole
aim to serve children suffering from anorectal malformation since
birth in India. The response to this society from world over is
phenomenal. To draw attention of the government towards the plight
of these children one Public Interest Litigation has been filed in
Delhi High Court, India by me titled Rakesh Prabhakar Versus.
Union of India and Or’s bearing WP (C) No – 5588/2007.
Besides the following companies there are many more whose names
are not being reflected herein intentionally for the sake of
confidentiality and their brand imaging in the Indian market.
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Conciliation and Arbitration: I have even
acted as a sole arbitrator in numerous matter ranging about 60 in
number.
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Individual Clientele: The above category of
clientele ranging about 4000 (Four Thousand Only) in number
includes every other type of work whether related to Matrimony,
labour, Civil or Criminal, Copyrights & Patents, Consumer,
Monopolies Restrictive Trade Practices in India (MRTP), Writ
Petitions in High Court and Supreme Court of India. Injunctions,
Arbitrations, Company law, PIL’s Etc.
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