After the wonderful Moot experience at GITAM here, I embark on a more tougher Moot competition at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology at Bhubaneswar.

The Starters

Like previous Moot competition, even this one was a surprise for me. Was actually preparing for this moot at KL University.

The Team

My team this time consisted of folks who are all-new to a external Moot Competition. Just like I was in the previous competition.

1. Suprajaa Rajan
2. Venkat Sai

Sandhya

Each of these individuals

In addition to my team for Moot, we had support

1. Naziya
2. Sameera

Both of them showed keen interest in Mooting and were eager to join in with us in our WhatsApp group to learn how we work towards a Moot competition

The Preparation

Here are the Memorials prepared for Moot Problem #1

Moot Problem #1

Petitioner Memorial

Respondent Memorial

The Journey

The Moot Experience

The Learnings

It was just one day before the last date of paying the registration fee and submitting participant details to the organizers, that I came to know about a Moot Court Competition being conducted at GITAM School of Law, Vishakapatnam. I would have not taken interest in it if not for the Moot problem said 498A IPC and 304B IPC !!!

As someone fighting couple of false matrimonial cases (1. Sec 498A IPC and Sec 3,4 of DP Act 2. Sec 12 of PWDV Act) on his own as Party-in-Person to protect his elderly parents who are falsely implicated in this motivated cases, saying Yes to this competition, was my instant reaction. This is one golden opportunity for me to hear and more importantly, see young law students argue a case, which is of total interest to me personally, for above mentioned reasons. I was confident to win the competition, irrespective of competition’s strength.

The Beginning

Now, I need to find my team mates and I had no ready options. Learned faculty put together the team and I got a team on the last date of registration. Phew!!

Now a short timeline to give you a feel of how it all happened before elaborating on details.

The research for the Memorials arguments began and daily brainstorming of all possible argument points shared on Whatsapp. Evening face-2-face meetups to revisit the argument points and put text around the thoughts/ideas. That was exhausting and sometimes irritating, but really fruitful. Got Memorial copies from Library of our previous batch participants. They had participated in the Prelim and did not move forward. Their personal experiences were quite helpful in preparing ourselves for this Moot.

The Preparation and the Travel to Vishakapatnam (The Vizag!)

Next set of Timelines…

Here are the Memorials my team prepared for the competition.

Memorial from Petitioner Point of view

MEMORIAL ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER v1.0 (GRMCVA05)

Memorial from Accused Point of view

MEMORIAL ON BEHALF OF ACCUSED v1.0 (GRMCVA05)

GITAM School of Law, the Venue

Instead of a boring text Travelogue, this timeline presentation should give the gist of our Journey coupled with some cool pics !!!

The Return Journey to Home

The following are some of the safe pics 😉

During the Journey

We three, the Team. At the Venue.

(The Finalists/Runners Team & the Semi-Finalists/We )

Participation Certificate and the Bye Bye to Vizag.

Final Video.

It was a first time learning experience on how a Moot Competition runs at Regional level. I am done with Moot Competitions, at Regional level. And may be one National level Moot Competition. Just may be. Check out learning experiences and Identified improvement areas here.

Next Target is to help my classmate, seniors and juniors understand the beauty and value of moot competitions.