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  1. Ram Boolchand Jethmalani (14 September 1923 – 8 September 2019) was an Indian lawyer and politician. He served as India's Union Minister of Law and Justice, as chairman of the Indian Bar Council, and as the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association.

  2. Oct 28, 2019 · Ram Jethmalani's tryst with criminal law started at the age of 17 and he practiced it for nearly 80 years, with his dying words being "I wish good for the country". Known to speak his mind with...

  3. Sep 9, 2019 · Ram Jethmalani, one of India’s most maverick lawyers, passed away, over the weekend. He was among the highest-paid lawyers in the country. But his popularity didn’t just come from winning cases -...

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    • Here are some of his notable cases.
    • Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra. In 1959, Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife’s lover, in what is a historic case in the annals of the judiciary.
    • Amit Shah’s defence in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case. Jethmalani defended Home Minister Amit Shah in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, by alleging that the then UPA government led by Congress was using the CBI to falsely implicate the former Gujarat home minister.
    • L K Advani’s defence in Hawala scam. Jethmalani defended former deputy prime minister L K Advani in the Hawala scam in the early 90s, which pertained to payments made by politicians through hawala brokers in a $-18 million bribery scandal.
  4. Sep 9, 2019 · Veteran lawyer and former Union minister Ram Jethmalani, possibly a lawyer with the longest and perhaps most controversial career in the country, passed away Sunday morning.

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  5. Sep 8, 2019 · Veteran lawyer and former Union law minister Ram Jethmalani passed away Sunday morning at his residence in New Delhi at the age of 95. He breathed his last at 7.45 am at his official residence in New Delhi, PTI quoted his son Mahesh Jethmalani as saying.

  6. Sep 8, 2019 · Ram Jethmalani, twice Law Minister, criminal lawyer, jurist, teacher, litigant and parliamentarian who relished the epithet ‘unchanged and unrepentant maverick’, passed away at 95 on September...