NEW DELHI: Former Attorney General of India and veteran jurist, Soli Sorabjee handed away on Friday morning, aged 91. According to his household sources, he died attributable to COVID-19 associated problems.
The veteran jurist was born in 1930 in Bombay. The 91-year-old Constitutional law expert was just lately contaminated with COVID-19, household sources mentioned.
He was admitted to a personal hospital in South Delhi after getting contaminated with COVID-19.
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Former Attorney General of India, Soli Sorabjee passes away on the age of 91 years.
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Condoling his loss of life, President Ram Nath Kovind mentioned, “In the passing of Soli Sorabji, we lost an icon of India’s legal system. He was among a select few who deeply influenced the evolution of the constitutional law & justice system. Awarded with Padma Vibhushan, he was among the most eminent jurists. Condolences to his family & associates.”
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In passing of Soli Sorabji, we misplaced an icon of India’s authorized system. He was amongst choose few who deeply influenced evolution of constitutional law & justice system. Awarded with Padma Vibhushan, he was amongst most outstanding jurists. Condolences to his household & associates: President pic.twitter.com/JHNaL8W0oW
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Soli Jehangir Sorabjee had served because the Attorney General of India from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004. Sorabjee started his authorized observe within the 12 months 1953 on the Bombay High Court.
In 1971, he was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India. He grew to become the Attorney General of India, first from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004.
He was additionally a famend human rights lawyer. The UN appointed him as a Special Rapporteur for Nigeria, in 1997, to report on the human rights scenario in that nation.
Following this, he was made a member and later Chairman of the UN-Sub Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, from 1998 to 2004.
He was a member of the United Nations Sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities since 1998. He has additionally served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2000 to 2006.
Sorabjee was a champion of freedom of speech and expression and had defended freedom of the press in lots of landmark instances within the Supreme Court.
During his illustrious profession, Sorabjee was additionally concerned in lots of instances, defending the liberty of speech and expression and has been instrumental in revoking censorship orders and bans on publications.
He had penned a number of books on this topic – The Laws of Press Censorship in India (1976); The Emergency, Censorship and the Press in India, 1975-77 (1977).
The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Vibhushan in March 2002 for his defence of freedom of speech and the safety of human rights.
He has appeared earlier than the Supreme Court in sure landmark instances like Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India (1978), SR Bommai v. Union of India (1994), BP Singhal v. Union of India (2010), and so forth.
