Roopa Agarwal — unethical behavior

Roopa Agarwal — unethical behavior

V Victoria Leeladhar from Noida, Uttar Pradesh

I have a complaint against roopa agarwal, a lucknow-based lawyer with her office at b-105, diwani nyayalaya, lucknow. On 3rd april 2017 i approached her to represent me in a case pertaining to women harassment at work. Roopa claims her speciality is in fighting such cases. She charged me rs 5100 as vakalatnama charges, over and above rs 71, 000 for fighting the whole case. I found that she was never attending my case but sending a very junior lawyer who could hardly speak in the court. I protested and asked her to attend the case herself. She rudely replied that i need not teach her. We had some arguments on this issue. Subsequently, she did not send anybody to attend to my case in the court. I approached her and told her that i was hiring another lawyer and she must return a good part of the money i had paid her. She refuses to return the money, saying that it was i who had broken the relationship with her by haggling over whom to send in the court. I am to caution people against roopa. She is a corrupt, unethical, dishonest and totally unreliable person, with no business ethics at all. I wonder whether anyone can help me with info as to how i can get my money back from her. Victoria leeladhar, lucknow Was this information helpful? No (0) Yes (1)
Jul 27, 2018 Updated by Victoria Leeladhar In the era of Narendra Modi, people like Roopa Agarwal are a misfit. Her utter lack of ethics has been a common subject on consumer complaint websites. You need to make a complaint against her with the Bar Council of India, so that she is taken to task and she desists from her nefarious activities. Radha Mahajan Jul 27, 2018 Updated by Victoria Leeladhar I want to make a complaint against Roopa Agarwal, with her office at B-105, Deewani Nyayalaya, Lucknow, India. I approached her for fighting my wife's case involving harassment in office. She quoted Rs 77, 000 as her "full" fees. We paid her Rs 35, 000 as initial amount. She attended the case during the first hearing. After that she raised a demand of "vakalatnama charges" of Rs 5, 100, which was different from her fees. We protested, saying that this was not told to us earlier, and our liabilities were limited to Rs 77, 000. She insisted upon receiving Rs 5, 100 as vakalatnama charges apart from her fees. We refused to pay. She did not attend the second hearing. When we protested, she rudely replied that we were free to hire another lawyer if we were not satisfied with her services. We told her that it was too early to say whether her services were satisfactory, but she should stick to her originally demanded fees and not ask for more charges that have not been discussed earlier and agreed upon. We also told her that we would definitely want to hire another lawyer provided she returned the money she had taken from us. Neither she returned the money nor did she attend any more hearing. Recently I hired another lawyer to pursue the matter in the court. Through this website I would like to tell any prospective clients looking out for a lawyer that Ms Roopa Agarwal is a greedy, unethical, and totally unprofessional person, lacking in any integrity or character. Please do not make the mistake that I had made. Kirtan Ananda, Lucknow
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Gopal Sudesh Mathur

from Noida, Uttar Pradesh

All the greed, wickedness, and characterlessness of Roopa Agarwal described in these postings pale into insignificance if I were to describe my experiences with her. I met her on 4th November 2016 at her office in B-105, Diwani Nyayalya, Lucknow. I paid her Rs 25, 000 as the first installment, out of a total of Rs 55, 000 for the full case. Thankfully she did not ask me for vakalatnama charges, standing charges, and other charges that she levies upon her hapless clients. After the second hearing, she called me to her chamber. When I went there she asked for a sexual favor. I was aghast and dumbfounded. I told her that I am only 23, and she seems to be well over 45. At least this age difference should have prevented her from making this unreasonable request. She said it was precisely because I was so young that she was asking me for this favor. I refused. She stopped attending to my case. She did not attend the third hearing.

Gopal Mathur, Lucknow

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