Soli Sorabjee, Champion of Free Speech , dies at 91
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Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, India’s former attorney general and a legal luminary passed away on Friday morning at a private hospital in Delhi where he was being treated for Covid-19.
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For a student of law, it is impossible to complete the first semester without encountering the landmark Kesavananda Bharati v/s State of Kerala case, where a 13-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court held that Parliament could amend any part of the Constitution so long as it did not alter or amend its “basic structure” or “essential feature”.
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.”
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