Suspension is forced on you. You may feel that it is harsh and unjustified. But accept the reality. This is only to remain cool, so that you keep your entire faculties alert in planning remedial measures. Some of the important considerations that you must accept are as under:

1. Do not be sentimental and over perturbed by the development, if you desire to deal effectively with the situation. Do not exhibit distress signal. This will be mistaken by your friends as a sign of the weakness in your case and the resultant pain and worry you convey. Demonstrate that you accept the challenge to meet and overcome the same.

2. Look ahead and prepare yourselves to meet the charge sheet, or criminal prosecution that is contemplated against you.

3. Immediately get hold of an able defence assistant, well-versed both in respect of internal remedies as also legal solutions to deal with the threat, for consultation and advice. A friend in support adds you strength, courage and confidence.

4. Analyse the events, and assess why the suspension has been imposed on you, when it is not a case of "deemed suspension"

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5. Managers when they have powers to choose advocates should try to locate younger advocates with 7 to 10 years practice and support their cause. You must also support young promising advocates even with three years practice and advise them to handle Bank cases associating themselves with another advocate having 7 years practice to meet eligibility criteria

6. Legal profession is one of keen competition, where new entrants find it extremely difficult to make an effective beginning in the face of severe competition from seniors. Even if you are able to encourage and promote the practice of two or three such advocates, you are sure to get the best of legal advice at any time for a moderate fee. Those advocates who appear for the Banks, may not choose to appear against the Bank, in labour cases. But they will be able to suggest you and fix a good lawyer at moderate fees. They may also help you with free legal advice and even with drafting plaints/writ petitions etc.

7. If bank managers of several banks in a centre accept this strategy, and cooperate amongst themselves, legal representation will be made easy and effective. A comparatively junior, but brilliant advocate will bestow you more time and study your case with greater interest. He is aware of the latest decisions. Compared to this a senior advocate is always under pressure of work. You have to wait for hours at his chambers for interview. And he may still not bestow total attention on litigation considered by him as trivial cases. Remember today's senior lawyers, started their profession as juniors yesterday.

8. In case of a deemed-suspension, suspension is but a shadow of more serious events ahead. Attention needs to be paid, to what can be treated as the substance or background criminal case or projected threat perception at the right point, instead of merely concerning about the symptom of suspension.

9. Do not submit an appeal against suspension before expiry two months. Your case will be automatically reviewed once in three months, and it will be timely if you submit an appeal after two months.

10. Utilise the benefit of time released to you freeing you from the obligation to attend office, while under suspension and find time to go through the legal supplement on this web site. Do not fritter away the resource, but spend the same fruitfully to work for your safeguards.

11. Remember in criminal prosecution, there is less likelihood of procedural violations or denial of natural justice, or arbitrary actions, as in the case of a departmental inquiry. Even if you lose in the original case, the appeal remedy can effectively set right things. But the sequence of events would be more stretched and the process may involve one to two years. In this period, you will dwell to develop your own knowledge base with keen awareness of the law for the common man, despite being represented by a competent lawyer.