Tribune News Service
New Delhi, April 30
Eminent jurist and former Attorney General of India Soli J Sorabjee died of Covid at a private hospital here on Friday morning, sources said.
He was 91.
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In the Maneka Gandhi case, the court had particularly mentioned that “Attorney General (and the Additional Solicitor General who appeared with him), with characteristic and commendable grace and perceptive and progressive realism, agreed to the happy resolution of the present dispute in the manner set out in my learned brother s judgment.”
NEW DELHI â Former Attorney General and veteran lawyer Soli Sorabjee passed away here early morning April 30. He was 91. The gentle giant Soli Sorabjee passed away this morning. Always ready to lend a helping hand Soli Sir leaves behind countless admirers & many memories. My condolences to the family in this hour of grief, tweeted Union Minister Smriti Irani while condoling Sorabjee s demise.
Sorabjee, born in 1930, enrolled at the bar in 1953. In 1971, Bombay High Court designated him as senior advocate.
Defense Minister Rajnath Singh also condoled the demise of Sorabjee, calling him an exceptional legal mind and a great scholar of the Indian constitution.
He was appointed to the coveted and highest post any lawyer would aspire to hold i.e. that of the Attorney General for India not once but twice. Though I had interacted with him after I had joined the bar in 1978 sporadically, my daily interaction with him was when I was appointed an Additional Solicitor General (1999-2004) under his second stint as Attorney General. Incidentally, he was the first to come and wish me the best, in the chambers of the Attorney General when I held the post in 2014.
He was kind and affectionate to young and old. He never behaved as if success had gone to his head. A lawyerâs reputation is measured not only by the number of clients he or she may have had but also by the trust reposed in the lawyer by the court. The judges of the Supreme Court have always had immense respect for him and trusted him implicitly.
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