Soli Sorabjee, 'Champion of Free Speech', dies at 91 SECTIONS Share Synopsis 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. Agencies 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”.