Wikipedia User:Advocate Veerdevinder Singh Sekhon

Veerdevinder Singh Sekhon(24 August 1995) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He is noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law.

Sekhon obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree at the age of 23 and started practising law at Punjab and Haryana High Court Chandigarh. The practice led him to move to Chandigarh where he began his life and career afresh.

He obtained his Master’s degree in LLM from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He started his practice in the field of Criminal law and is presently among the known lawyers of Punjab. Veerdevinder has won different types of cases like Bails, Quashing of FIR’s, Direction Petitions.

Legal career
Veerdevinder Singh Sekhon started his career as a lawyer. He started his own law firm in Chandigarh with his best friend Amandeep Singh Sidhu who is friend of him from eight years.

Veerdevinder Singh Sekhon fought his first case at the age of 23 in the High court of Punjab and Haryana under Justice Sudhir Mittal, contesting the direction petition to Commissionerate of Police of ludhiana for fresh registeration of the FIR by his clerk. In a talk at Sangrur in January 2022, Sekhon recounted his first case fought in India as a lawyer.

Sekhon later came to be noted for his appearance in the Guru Granth Sahib University case in 2018, Dr.Anmol Rattan Singh Sidhu with who later to become the Advocate General of Punjab. His defence of a string of smugglers in 2018 established his image as a "smuggler’s lawyer", to which he mentioned that he is only doing his duty as a lawyer.