Her firm primarily handles cases involving marital issues or suspected affairs, but also investigates missing persons, murder, and corporate espionage, and conducts background checks of political candidates.
In February 2018, Pandit was among several Indian private investigators arrested by police in connection with an alleged scam involving the illegal sale and purchase of call data records.
When she was eight or nine, she approached the body of a woman who had died in her apartment block in order to check if she was really dead,[4]: 370 and at age 11 she investigated a present from a relative and discovered it was counterfeit merchandise.
[6] In 1983, she was concerned by the actions of a female classmate who was drinking, smoking and visiting hotel rooms with boys, so she provided the parents of the girl with photographic evidence.
[6] Having graduated, Pandit first found work as an office clerk, then agreed to help a colleague who thought her daughter-in-law was stealing money.
[3] In one case, she visited Juhu Beach and feigned having mental health issues in order to evade suspicion and safely eavesdrop on two business executives suspected of fraud.
[2] In 1988, Pandit had a breakthrough case when an influential family asked her to help solve a murder: a man had been killed, and it was suspected that a relative was behind his death.
When the noisy click of the recorder almost gave her away, she created a distraction by dropping a kitchen knife on her foot and allowed herself to be rushed away to a clinic, after which she called police and had the guilty parties arrested.
[3] On February 2, 2018, Pandit was arrested by Thane police in connection with a scam in which several private detectives had allegedly obtained and sold call data records (CDRs) illegally.
[3] During the 2019 Indian general election, Pandit's firm was hired by political parties to conduct finance checks and background investigations on multiple candidates.