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Pavani Parameswara Rao was born on 5 August, 1933 in India, is an Indian lawyer. Discover Pavani Parameswara Rao's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

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1933

Pavani Parameswara Rao (P. P. Rao; 5 August 1933 – 13 September 2017) was a Senior Advocate practising in the Supreme Court of India.

Widely considered a doyen of Constitutional Law, he had argued a number of landmark cases before the Supreme Court.

He was born on 5 August 1933, in Mogalicherla Village, Lingasamudram Mandal in the Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh.

He completed his B.A. from V.R. College, Nellore, Andhra University and his LL.B. and LL.M. from Osmania University, Hyderabad.

1961

Mr. Rao started his career teaching law in the University of Delhi in 1961.

1966

Rao co-authored Emergency and the Law (1966) with his Senior, N.C. Chatterjee, M.P..

1967

He was enrolled as an Advocate by the Bar Council of Delhi in 1967 and thereafter started practice in the Supreme Court.

He was the chamber junior to Shri N.C. Chatterjee, Senior Advocate and Parliamentarian.

Thereafter when Mr. NC Chatterjee left for Kolkata, due his ailing health in 1967, he joined the chambers of his former teacher, Shri Raja Vasudev Pillai, Senior Advocate.

1969

During this time he assisted leading lawyers of the time like H.M. Seervai, M.C. Setalvad, C.K. Daphtary, N.C. Chatterjee, S.V. Gupte, A.K. Sen, Niren De, etc. In February 1969, he became an Advocate-on-Record.

1976

He was Advocate-on-Record for the State of Andhra Pradesh and a Junior Standing Counsel for the Central Government before he was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in August 1976.

1983

He led the Indian delegation of lawyers to the Soviet Union (1983) and was a member of the official delegation of lawyers to China led by the Attorney-General (1990).

1984

He contributed a chapter titled "Union Judiciary" in Constitutional Law of India, edited by M. Hidayatullah (1984).

1991

He was elected the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1991, and in 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.

1992

Soon after demolition of the Babri Masjid in December 1992, President's Rule was imposed in the four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states, viz., Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.

When these proclamations were challenged in the Supreme Court by lawyers such as Soli Sorabjee, Ram Jethmalani, Shanti Bhushan and others who generally represented the opposition parties, Rao defended the Proclamations representing the States of Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh which were then under President's Rule.

Rao conceived, developed and presented the argument based on secularism which is part of the basic structure of the Constitution and convinced the Court that all the four BJP Governments had acted in concert and violated the basic feature of secularism by mobilising, encouraging and supporting the Kar Sevaks who demolished Babri Masjid.

The Supreme Court upheld all the four Proclamations.

1993

He successfully fought against capitation fees in educational institutions in J.P. Unnikrishnan's case (1993); for the privileges of members of parliament in P.V. Narasimha Rao's case (1998) ; for the Governor's power to appoint a Chief Minister who is not a member of the Legislature, but enjoying majority support while her appeal against conviction was pending in B.R. Kapoor's case (2001); for the voters' right to information about the antecedents of contesting candidates in the PUCL case appearing for Lok Satta (2003); for Government's power of regulation of admissions to professional courses for preventing exploitation of students by private institutions in T.M.A. Pai (2002), Islamic Academy (2003) and P.A. Inamdar (2005).

Representing the National Human Rights Commission, he persuaded the Supreme Court to intervene directly in the Best Bakery case in which Fast Track Court had acquitted all the accused.

Rao along with other like-minded lawyers and citizens organised a National Convention for Communal Harmony and Constitutional Objectives in Delhi in April–May 1993, after the demolition of Babri Masjid, securing the participation of many renowned persons from different fields, including retired Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Members of Parliament past and present, former Ministers, administrators including former Cabinet Secretaries, Governors, academicians, journalists and others.

Rao was also associated with several organisations/associations mostly connected with law, teaching and legal research.

He is a Member of the Governing bodies of National Law Schools, Indian Law Institute, National Judicial Academy etc.

1994

The judgement is reported as SR Bommai v Union of India, (1994) 3 SCC 1 = AIR 1994 SC 1918.

Rao appeared in several other leading cases involving interpretation of the Constitution.

2001

Rao also wrote a chapter on "The Political Executive" in Political Reforms, published under the auspices of Centre For Policy Studies (2001) and contributed many articles to legal periodicals and newspapers on constitutional law and human rights, including an article for the golden jubilee of the Supreme Court published in Supreme But Not Infallible : Essays in Honour of the Supreme Court of India (2000).

Articles authored by him were often published by The Tribune and the Indian Express.

2010

On 4 March 2010, he was awarded an LL.D. (Honoris Causa) in recognition of his eminence and contributions to the cause of public interest.

2016

He successfully defended the constitutional validity of Entry Tax before a nine Judge Bench of the Supreme Court in 2016.

He had led the arguments on behalf of States of MP and Andhra Pradesh.

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his nod for the nomination of P.P. Rao, senior advocate, as jurist member of the selection committee of the Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman.

Rao participated in several seminars and conferences including the SAARC Law conferences, International Bar Association, Law Asia and Conferences of Commonwealth Law Association.

2017

He died on 13 September 2017 in a private hospital in South Delhi following a cardiac arrest, India.