Eminent lawyer and former Union law minister Ram Jethmalani passed away at the age of 95.
About:
Ram Jethmalani (1923 – 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician.
He was the highest paid lawyer in the supreme court of India. He took up a number of high-profile defence cases as lawyer– people involved in market scams (Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh). He also defended L. K. Advani in the Hawala scam.
During the emergency period of 1975–1977, he was the chairman of the Bar Association of India.
He became a member of Rajya Sabha in 1988. He became The Union Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs in 1996 in the Government of India led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 1998, he was given the portfolio of Union Minister of Urban Affairs and Employment and in 1999 he was again sworn in as the Union Minister for Law, Justice and Company Affairs.
In 2010, he was elected as the president of Supreme Court Bar Association.
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