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AMF NEWS FEELS PRIVILEGED TO REPRODUCE PHOTOGRAPHS OF INDIA’S LEGAL LUMINARY RAM JETHMALANI PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU
Noted jurist Ram Jethmalani passed away at 7.45 a.m. on September 8, 2019. He was 95 and he died days before his 96th birthday on September 14.Photo: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
He was a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), Senior Advocate (Supreme Court of India) and an eminent professor of law. He has served as India’s Union Law Minister and as Chairman of Bar Council of India.Photo: The Hindu Archives
He obtained a law degree at the age of 17 and started practising law in Karachi until the partition of India, following which he moved to Bombay.Photo: Ram Jethmalani’s official website
He married Durga at the age of eighteen. Later, in 1952, he married Ratna Shahani, who was herself a lawyer. He had two sons and two daughters- Janak, Shobha, Rani and Mahesh.Photo: Ram Jethmalani official Facebook Page (@ramjethmalaniimp)
He was chosen to be a part of former President S.D. Sharma’s cabinet in 1992 along with Jaswant Singh, Suraj Bhan, Sartaj Singh, Sikander Bakht, S.D. Sharma, Vajpayee, Murli Manohar Joshi, Dhananjaya Kumar, Pramod Mahajan, Sushma Swaraj and Suresh Prabhakar. He has served as a Union Minister for Law and Urban Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet.Photo: The Hindu Archives
A Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he never shied away from criticising the party leadership. This led to him being expelled in 2013 from the primary membership of the party for six years for “breach of discipline.”Photo: Nagara Gopal
Mr. Jethmalani has fought several high-profile cases during his legal career. He has defended former deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani in the hawala scam case, stockbroker Harshad Mehta, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the assassins of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, and former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.Photo: G. Ramakrishna
He is survived by his son Mahesh Jethmalani, a well known lawyer, and daughter Shobha, who is based in the U.S.Photo: Vivek Bendre
Prasanta Patnaik