The 6th KIIT National Moot Court Competition, which was being held in the KIIT Law School campus here, concluded on Sunday.
The Law School of Sastra Deemed University, Chennai bagged the Champions Trophy with a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh. The Rizvi Law College Mumbai and the Christ University of Bangalore won the first and the second Runners Up prize with cash prize of Rs 50,000 and Rs 25,000, respectively.
Biswas Bharadwaj of Sastra University Law College adjudged as the best student advocate and got Rs 10,000 as cash prize. As many as 42 teams from across the country, including National Law Universities and reputed Law Colleges, participated.
Calcutta High Court Justice Sanjib Banerjee, Odisha Advocate General Surjya Mishra, lawyer Somasekhar Sundaresan, amd Siddharth Dutta of the Sardul Amarchand Mangal Das Law Firm joined as judges.
Orissa High Court Justice Debabrat Das, IIT, Kharagpur Prof Indrajit Dubey, KIIT University Registrar Dr Sasmitarani Samanta joined as guests. KIIT School of Law Director Prof NK Chakraborty gave the welcome address.