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Profile
Ø Was
offered
appointment
to
the
Indian
Administrative
Service,
but
declined to
accept
the offer
Ø Joined
the
Bar
in 1972
and
was
designated
a
Senior
Advocate
in 1983.
Ø In
December, 1989, appointed
as
Additional
Solicitor
General
of
India,
which
position
was held
till
December, 1990.
Ø In
January
1991, was the
Leader
of the
Indian
Delegation
to
the
Human
Rights
Commission
in Geneva.
Ø In
July
1991, was
nominated
as a
Member
of the Working
Group
on
Arbitrary Detentions
set
up
by
the
Human
Rights
Commission.
Later
became the
Chairman
of the Group.
Ø In
1993
nominated
as
Member
of the
Board
of
Management
of
Indira
Gandhi
National
Open
University. The same year, also nominated as a Member of the
Governing Body of St. Stephen’ College.
Ø
In
October 1994,
as
a
nominee
of the Working
Group
on
Arbitrary Detentions
set
up
by
the
Human
Rights
Commission
in Geneva, visited Bhutan
and
Vietnam
for
reporting on the human rights
situation
prevailing
there.
In October 1997, visited China
as Chairman
of the Group to look into the
alleged
human rights violations there.
Ø In
1995.
elected
as
President
of the
Supreme
Court
Bar
Association.
Ø In
1997,
elected
for
another
term,
President
of the
Supreme
Court
Bar
Association.
Ø Specialized
in
the
field
of
Constitutional
Law.
In 1994, had the privilege of addressing Parliament in the historic
impeachment proceedings against Justice V. Ramaswamy, then a sitting
Judge of the Supreme Court. This was the first time impeachment
proceedings were
initiated
against a member of the superior judiciary.
Ø Have
represented one
party
or
another
in
almost
all
landmark
decisions rendered
by
the
Supreme
Court
of
India
in the
last
twenty years. Suspended
active
practice
since
May
2004.
Ø Also
participated
in
the
decision
in which the
Supreme
Court
upheld
by
a
majority
of 3
to
2 the vires of the 10th
Schedule
of the Constitution,
otherwise
referred
to
as
the ‘Anti-Defection
Law”.
Ø Appeared
for
the
State
of Haryana
in
the Ravi-Beas
River
Waters
Tribunal
(Eradi Tribunal) which adjudicated upon the
distribution of Ravi-Beas waters
between
Haryana, Punjab
and
Rajasthan. The Hon’ble
Supreme
Court
recently
ruled
in
favour
of
Haryana. Was
counsel
for the State of Haryana in the
territorial
dispute
between Punjab and Haryana with
respect
to the
demand
for
transfer
of Chandigarh to Punjab and Fazilka and
Abhor
to Haryana.
Ø Also
appeared
in
TADA
proceedings
in the
Apex
Court
for
and
on
behalf
of
detainees. In the field of Constitutional
Law, has represented minorities and minority educational
institutions
for the last more than twenty years.
Ø In
a
landmark
judgement of the
Supreme
Court,
appeared
for
the West Bengal
Cricket
Association.
The Court opined that Doordarshan had no monopoly in the broadcast
of sports events. This resulted in the conduct of a communications
regime in which
air
waves
are no longer regarded as the monopoly of the State.
Ø Also
appeared
for
the Advocates-on-Record
Association
in
the
famous
decision
of the
Constitution
Bench,
wherein the
Court
opined that the
right
to
appoint
judges to the
superior
judiciary
was
primarily
the
privilege
of the court
and
that primacy in the decision-making
process
for the
appointment
of judges vested
not
in the
Executive
but
in the Judiciary.
Ø Was
designated
to
appear
in
several
matters as amicus
for
the
Supreme
Court
in issues of
constitutional
importance.
Ø Represented
Shri
Shankar
Dayal Sharma, the then
President
of
India
in an
election
petition
filed
against
him. |
