Ram Jethmalani, one of India's greatest and legendary criminal lawyer passes away

Eminent lawyer and Former Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani passed away on 8th September 2019 at the age of 95.

Along with being a highly successful lawyer, he was also a politician who was elected twice to the Lok Sabha. He served as law minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee led NDA-government and later also held the urban development portfolio.

He secured an LL.B. degree from Bombay University with a first class distinction at the age of 17. At that time, when the minimum age for becoming a lawyer was 21, a special exception (resulting from an application that he made to the court contesting the rule regarding minimum age) allowed him to become a lawyer at 18. Jethmalani fought his very first case in the court of Sindh under Justice Godfrey Davis, contesting the rule regarding minimum age passed by the bar council of Sindh.

Jethmalani was a Partition refugee who went on to become one of India's greatest criminal lawyers.

In 1954, he took up job as a part-time Professor at the Government Law College, Mumbai for both graduate and post graduate studies. He also taught comparative law at the Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

His first noteworthy case came in 1959 when he was the prosecutor in the Naval Commander KM Nanavati case.

He has been the President of Bar Council of India for four tenures. He has handled several high profile cases during his tenure.