Ram Jethmalini

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Ram Jethmalani born 14 September 1923, is an Indian lawyer and politician. He has served as India's Union Law Minister and as Chairman of Bar Council of India. He has represented a sweep of cases from the high-profile to the controversial for which he has often faced severe criticism. He is the highest paid Indian lawyer^[2] He has always claimed that 90% of the cases he fights is free of cost.

Ram Jethmalani is known as a maverick lawyer with many distinctions to his credit. He obtained a law degree at an early age of 17 and started practising law in his hometown (in today's Pakistan) until the partition of India. He married Durga Jethmalani and later, his second wife, Ratna Jethmalani. The partition led him to move to Mumbai as a refugeeand he began his life afresh with his family. He has two sons and two daughters, of whom, Mahesh Jethmalani and Rani Jethmalani are also well known lawyers.

He was elected a member of parliament in 6th and 7th Lok Sabha on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket fromMumbai. He has served as Law Minister of India and also as Minister of Urban Development during the Prime Ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee against whom he later on contested election in General Elections of 2004 fromLucknow constituency. However in 2010 he came back to BJP and was elected to Rajya Sabha on its ticket fromRajasthan. He has also been criticised as being opportunistic because of this.^[3]

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Defence of high-profile cases[edit]

He has a number of high-profile defence cases to his credit as a lawyer — people involved in market scams (Harshad Mehta and Ketan Parekh), and a host of gangsters and smugglers including the British citizen Daisy Angus who was acquitted of hashish smuggling after serving 5 years in jail. He also defended L.K Advani in Hawala Scam. Recently he was in the news for taking up the defence of Manu Sharma, prime accused in the Jessica Lall murder case, however, he failed to get Manu Sharma acquitted. He is now going to be defending Lalit Modi – former IPL Chairman and Commissioner.^{[19][20][21][22]}

• Defence of Rajiv Gandhi's killers in Madras High Court in year 2011.
• Defence of Indira Gandhi's killers, and challenged the medical evidence (PMR) given by T D Dogra on Indira Gandhi.^[23]
• Harshad Mehta's defence in stock market scam
• Ketan Parekh's defence in stock market scam
• Underworld don Haji Mastan
• Defended death sentence of Afzal Guru (Jethmalani in his interview with Rajat Sharma in August 2013 said that he never took up the case of Afzal Guru)
• L K Advani's defence in Hawala Scam
• Manu Sharma's defence in Jessica Lall murder case
• Amit Shah's (Gujarat's former Minister of State for Home) defence in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
• Amit Jogi's defence (son of Ajit Jogi) in the case of Ramavatar Jaggi murder.

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• Kanimozhi's defence in Spectrum 2G case
• Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy's special leave petition on stay for CBI probe on money laundering in his companies.
• Yeddyurappa's case on illegal mining scam^[24]
• A. G. Perarivalan, T Suthendraraja alias Santhan and Sriharan alias Murugan – convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.
• Ramdev's defence on use of force on the followers of Baba Ramdev at Ramlila grounds on 4 June 2011^[25]
• Shiv Sena's defence in CPI MLA Krishna Desai murder case.
• Asaram Bapu's defence in Jodhpur sexual assault case.
• Lalu Prasad Yadav's defence in The Supreme Court of India bail was convicted in the fodder scam case on 13 December 2013.
• Subrata Roy in Sahara-SEBI case
• AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa who has been convicted in the disproportionate assets case, in the Karnataka High Court ^[26]

However Ram Jethmalani is of the opinion that he is someone who thinks independently, who has not mortgaged his soul or intelligence to anybody. He says "I decide according to my conscience who to defend. A lawyer who refuses to defend a person on the grounds that people believe him to be guilty is himself guilty of professional misconduct."

After he joined Bharatiya Janta Party in 2010, when he was asked why he had defended Afzal Guru against his death sentence when his party was in support of it, he replied that he had meant "that such indoctrinated elements (like Afzal) shouldn’t be allowed to die easily, but they should made to rot in jails."^[11] (Jethmalani in his interview with Rajat Sharma in August 2013 said that he never took up the case of Afzal Guru^[27])

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