Ram Boolchand Jethmalani was an Indian lawyer and politician. He was noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law and high-profile civil cases. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugee where he began his life and career afresh.
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Ram Boolchand Jethmalani 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. He was noted in the Indian legal fraternity for his forte in criminal law and high-profile civil cases. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugee where he began his life and career afresh. He announced his retirement from judicial profession in 2017. He died on 8 September 2019 in New Delhi at his home. His family includes both of his wives and four children – three by Durga and one by Ratna. Among his two sons and two daughters, Mahesh and Rani have been supreme court lawyers while MahesH is also a BJP leader, and Rana is a social activist. He got a double promotion in school and completed matriculation at the age of 13. He received his LL. M. degree from Bombay University, since Sindh did not have a university of its own at that time. In 1954, he became a part-time Professor at the Government Law College, Mumbai, for both graduate and post graduate studies. He fought his first case in the court of Sindh under Justice Godfrey Davis, contesting the rule regarding minimum age passed by the Bar Council of.
Sindh. In February 1948, when riots broke out in Karachi, he fled to India on the advice of his friend Brohi and when he came to India in that day he had only a one paisa coin in his pocket and with that note he stayed in the refugee camp for few days. At that time, the minimum age for becoming a lawyer was 21, but a special exception allowed him to become a lawyer at the aged of 18. He later returned to BJP in 2010, and was elected to the Rajya Sabha on its ticket. He has been the Chairman of India’s Bar Council for tenures, before becoming a well-known lawyer after the emergency in 1996. He also taught comparative law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and also taught at the State University of Michigan in Michigan, after which he also became a post-graduate lawyer. He married his first wife, Durga, in a traditional Indian arranged marriage. In 1947, just before partition, he married his second wife, Ratna Shahani, a lawyer by profession. He had four children with both of their wives and one with Ratna, and died at 7: 45 AM, six days short of his 96th birthday.
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