Sana is a law graduate from Government Law College, Mumbai, in 2009. Since then she has been an independent legal counsel with practice in civil and criminal litigation matters. Her expert subjects are negotiable instruments and personal family law, primarily handling matters pertaining to domestic violence, sexual harassment and divorce. She has practised before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Sessions Court, Family Court and Hon’ble Bombay High Court. She is  also having a Masters in IPR, from Mumbai University.

Her father, Advocate Hakim Salim A.R is also an Advocate having more than 30 years of experience in the field and he was the biggest motivating factor for her. Having a commerce degree opened various avenues initially and was almost successful in distracting her from becoming an Advocate; however, destiny had other plans.

She took parts in debates during graduation, and in law school she was more active in social service. 

She had taken IPR in her LLB days as an option in her third year. At that time the priority was to get good marks as she had heard it was relatively scoring. She afterwards developed a keen interest in the subject, and went on to specialise in it in her Masters, and also stood third in the Mumbai University. As far as this area of law is concerned, there are many things that you can do, like become a patent or trademark agent, or specialise and take up litigation in IPR laws such as copyright, trademarks and patents. IPR laws are crucial in this day and age of globalisation, added with cyber laws which also is a part of curriculum of Masters. All of the aforementioned are a gold mine, professionally, in case you have keen interest.

She is a  partner at POSH at Work which stands for Prevention of sexual harassment at the workplace. While the law on prevention of sexual harassment came into existence in the year 2013, all the three partners of POSH, which include a corporate lawyer and a clinical psychologist along with Sana, had been actively involved in the law individually. The three partners met and formed an organisation which assists all kinds of organisations with end to end compliance of the law on Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (prevention, prohibition, redressal) Act, 2013. They have also been empanelled by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, to conduct training and awareness sessions on POSH Act, 2013, they are the only organisation in Maharashtra and Goa to be empanelled.

The motivating factor was the law itself that is the need of the hour in light of horrendous Nirbhaya gang rape case in Delhi, to various instances pertaining to crime against women, and since she is actively involved in practicing in laws for women, it was also a natural course for her.

Sexual harrasment is the perverse mindsets and behaviour of the people involved in such unprincipled activity. In order to prevent it, one needs to inculcate respect of each other’s boundaries irrespective of the gender you or the other person belongs to. They also need to raise more awareness among all about the SH Act 2013 (as mandated by the SH law itself) and  various crucial amendments (in the year 2013) in the Indian Penal Code etc. making punishment for Crimes against Women more strict. 

Her advice is to take all possible experiences. Studying and participating in co-curricular and extra curricular activities widens your prospect, through which you absorb to deal with various things and multitask early on in your college days itself, which is tremendously valuable in whatever you choose to do in life.