The Supreme Court has questioned the NIA regarding the detention of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case, asking the agency to justify his detention for over six years.
'I know his principles and his teachings will continue to guide me in the years to come,' says Tanvi Dubey, paying homage to her mentor Ram Jethmalani.
Modi said Jethmalani was 'witty, courageous and never shied away from boldly expressing himself on any subject'.
Ram Jethmalani passed away a few days before his 96th birthday on September 14.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday stood firm behind noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani, its Rajya Sabha candidate from Rajasthan, and denied it was holding up its MLAs in a resort to ensure they do not indulge in cross-voting in the polls.
A signboard outside his house reads: 'I am not taking any new court matters but welcome for anything else.' Jethmalani is probably planning his retirement from active legal practice.
Stepping up further pressure, Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday demanded the immediate resignation of party president Nitin Gadkari and claimed three other senior leaders including Jaswant Singh and Yashwant Sinha were with him on the issue.
'Ram Sir was a creator of law. He has his stamp on every leading judgment in criminal law.'
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Moving a step forward on his suspension, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday issued a show cause notice to its Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani asking him to explain why he should not be expelled from the party for "anti-party" activities and indiscipline.
'Nobody will think like him. It was a treat for us to listen to him. He was meticulous in his argument. We got trained by listening to him,' says senior criminal lawyer R Shanmugasundaram, who had known Ram Jethmalani for almost 40 years.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has indicated it may take disciplinary action against Ram Jethmalani who has demanded party president Nitin Gadkari's resignation and disagreed with the party's stand over the appointment of new CBI director.
A Division Bench of Justice R S Sodhi and Justice P K Bhasin issued notice on his application seeking transfer to some other court to the state and fixed the matter for hearing on Tuesday.
Eminent lawyer and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Jethmalani on Saturday launched himself in the race to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Noted criminal lawyer Ram Jethmalani will represent Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the civil and criminal defamation suits filed against him by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The Supreme Court of India has ruled that individuals affiliated with political parties are not barred from contesting elections for bar bodies. The court dismissed a PIL seeking directions to prevent such candidates, arguing that a diverse range of ideologies is essential in a democracy and that there is no law prohibiting politically active individuals from participating in bar body elections.
A rebel by nature, he lived the life to the fullest, donning different hats -- lawyer, parliamentarian, minister -- but was not a quintessential politician constrained by party lines.
Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani on Saturday claimed that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim had offered to surrender to the Indian authorities in the 90s, but the then Maharashtra chief minister Sharad Pawar did not carry the matter forward.
There were certainly qualities adhering to the Tata Group, which emanated from the persona of Ratan Tata. Most notable of these would be the low profile he maintained, which sharply contrasted the in-your-face celebrity status, celebration of wealth and pursuit of importance many of liberalised India's rich, love, notes Shyam G Menon.
"We have prepared a broad platform where we have assessed the top 50 judges of the country who would be considered for appointment to the Supreme Court of India. We have data on judgments and the quality of judgments. The idea is to make the process of appointment in the Supreme Court more transparent," the CJI said.
Over the years, a noticeable unpleasantness began to develop between senior and junior, Sorabjee and Salve. Salve gave credit, for his rise in the profession, to Nani Palkhivala, and not to Sorabjee. This hurt Sorabjee, though he never admitted it.
Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai makes the audience feel good that the battle for justice was not in vain, observes Deepa Gahlot.
A list of watchable Hindi legal shows and films on OTT, in order of release.
Gitanjali Gurbaxani, whose family has known Ram Jethmalani since their Pre-Partition days in Sind, recalls the legal luminary and 'the pride of the Sindhi community'.
Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai reminds us that we haven't run out of instances where even the most vulnerable can secure justice against the mighty, applauds Utkarsh Mishra.
Alt Balaji's The Verdict - State vs Nanavati enjoyed a special screening for its cast and family in Mumbai.
Former Maharashtra CM accepts that advocate Ram Jethmalani had come with an offer of Dawood's surrender.
A four member panel of Kashmir Committee on Thursday met the hard-line separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his uptown residence in Srinagar and had two hour-long deliberations with him.
Some of the lawyers, who in the past worked with Jethmalani, described him as an 'icon and legend of the law', and said his humility touched all the sections of society.
"He passed away on Thursday evening due to cardiac arrest," a family member confirmed.
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear Sahara chief Subrata Roy's plea for recall of the non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued by it against him in a contempt case.
Suspended Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Ram Jethmalani on Tuesday gatecrashed the Parliamentary Party meeting of the main opposition and accused it of being soft on the United Progressive Alliance government on the issue of corruption.
Describing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as being "impeccably secular, honest and fully qualified" to become the prime minister, senior lawyer and Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Ram Jethmalani on Saturday said the Bharatiya Janata Party should announce his candidature for the top post before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Exactly a year after commencement of hearing, the Delhi high court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on appeals of three persons against a lower court judgement awarding rigorous life imprisonment to them for abducting and killing Nitish Katara in 2002.
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is behind the campaign against Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari, said senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideologue MG Vaidya.
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Senior advocate and suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ram Jethmalani on Friday said any party, which wants to come to power after the next Lok Sabha elections, should declare its prime ministerial candidate in advance.
Opposition-backed Presidential poll nominee P A Sangma on Monday said he would move the Supreme Court against the Election Commission's decision to quash the complaint against United Progressive Alliance candidate Pranab Mukherjee's nomination papers after the elections.
After supporting Ram Jethmalani and Yashwant Sinha's demand of resignation by Nitin Gadkari as the Bharatiya Janata Party chief, party leader Shatrughan Sinha on Sunday sided with Jethmalani again on appointment of Ranjit Sinha as new Central Bureau of Investigation director, saying there was no ground to initiate disciplinary action against the lawyer-turned politician.
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