In 1977 the Supreme Court of India sponsored her on a Gender & Law fellowship to England's University of Warwick.

She worked as a legal advisor, practising both civil and criminal law before the local Bellary courts.

[7] Also in March 2013, the justices refused the plea of prominent Marxist politician and Leader of the Opposition V. S. Achuthanandan for an early hearing in another investigation into the "Ice Cream Parlour sabotage case", involving an ice cream parlour that was allegedly being used as a front to lure girls and women into prostitution in the 1990s.

[8] In a case in 2017 she told doctors protesting against physical assault that if they are so scared of being beaten then they should resign and stay at home.

The resident doctors had gone on strike as they demanded safer working environments and wanted to be saved from these assaults.