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Soli Sorabjee was born on 9 March, 1930 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), is an Indian jurist (1930–2021). Discover Soli Sorabjee'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 91 years old?
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Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) |
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30 April, 2021 |
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Delhi, India |
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Soli Sorabjee Net Worth
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Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, AM (9 March 193030 April 2021) was an Indian jurist who served as Attorney-General for India from 1989 to 1990, and again from 1998 to 2004.
Soli Jehangir Sorabjee was born on 9 March 1930 in Bombay to a Parsi family.
At Government Law College, he was awarded the Kinloch Forbes Gold Medal in Roman Law and Jurisprudence (1952).
He studied at Bharda New High School, Mumbai and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and Government Law College, Mumbai, and was admitted to the bar in 1953.
In 1971, Sorabjee was designated a senior advocate of the Bombay High Court.
During The Emergency (1975-1977), Sorabjee provided legal services to political prisoners.
He served as Solicitor-General of India from 1977 to 1980.
He later worked on the Citizen's Justice Committee which represented the 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims pro bono.
He was appointed Attorney-General for India on 9 December 1989 up to 2 December 1990, and then again on 7 April 1998, a post he held until 2004.
He served as Special Rapporteur to Nigeria for the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1997, and as a member of the United Nations Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities from 1998 onwards.
He aided the petitioner in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, which targeted restrictions on online speech in the Information Technology Act, 2000.
He was the chairman of Transparency International and Convenor of the Minority Rights Group.
Sorabjee served as member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague from 2000 to 2006.
Soli J. Sorabjee was vice-president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and a member of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association.
Sorabjee's daughter, Zia Mody, is also a lawyer and partner at AZB & Partners.
Zia Mody is the author of the book 10 Judgements that Changed India.
Sorabjee is also survived by three sons—Jehangir, a doctor, Hormazd Sorabjee, editor of the Autocar India magazine and Jamshed.
—and seven grandchildren named Niki, Ardeshir, Raian, Maya, Anjali, Aarti, and Aditi.
Sorabjee was the first president of the Jazz India Association.
He played the clarinet; his favourite artists included Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie.
He died of COVID-19, on 30 April 2021 in a private hospital in Delhi where he was undergoing treatment.
He also wrote columns for the Indian Express.
In 2002, he received the Padma Vibhushan for his defence of the freedom of expression and the protection of human rights.
In March 2002, Soli Sorabjee received the Padma Vibhushan for his defence of the freedom of expression and the protection of human rights.
In March 2006 he was appointed an honorary member of the Order of Australia (AM), "for service to Australia-India bilateral legal relations".
Sorabjee was involved in several precedent-setting cases concerning the interpretation of the Constitution of India.
Sorabjee and Fali Nariman assisted the petitioner's counsel in Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, which restricted Parliament from altering the "basic structure" of the Constitution.
As Solicitor-General, he was a member of the government's legal delegation in Maneka Gandhi v Union of India, which held that Article 21 of the Constitution promulgated the right of personal liberty.
He was also involved in S. R. Bommai v. Union of India, which imposed restrictions on President's rule, and I.R. Coelho v. State of Tamil Nadu, which held that laws passed under the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution are not exempt from judicial review.
He appeared in the case of B.P. Singhal v. Union of India, in which the Supreme Court held that state governors could not be dismissed without due cause.
