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COVER STORY INDU MALHOTRA Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of India I ndu Malhotra is a Senior Counsel practising in the Supreme Court of India for the past 30 years. Born to a father who too was Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India, Indu joined the legal profession in 1983, starting off as Lecturer in Political Science at Delhi University. Later, she was qualified as Advocate-on-Record in the Supreme Court. She was appointed as Standing Counsel for the State of Haryana in the Supreme Court from 1991 to 1996. She represented various statutory corporations such as the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) before the Supreme Court. In 2007, she was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. She became the second woman to be designated by the Supreme Court after a gap of over 30 years. Indu has authored three editions of a commentary on law and the practice of arbitration and conciliation and has a specialization in the law of arbitration. www . legaleraonline . com | L egal E ra | N ovember 2017 31