Guwahati: Renowned jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate Fali S Nariman passed away on Wednesday. He was 95.
The senior jurist died at his Delhi home on Wednesday morning.
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The eminent jurist was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1991 and Padma Vibhusham in 2007.
In a post on X on Wednesday, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said it was “an end of an era.”
“A living legend who wl (will) forever be in the hearts &minds of those in law & public life. Above all his diverse achievements, he stuck to his principles unwaveringly & called a spade a spade, a quality shared by his brilliant son,” he said in the post.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Nariman “among the most outstanding legal minds and intellectuals.”
“He devoted his life to making justice accessible to common citizens. I am pained by his passing away. My thoughts are with his family and admirers. May his soul rest in peace,” the Prime Minister said in a post on X.
When Nariman was 38 years, below the minimum qualifying age, he declined an invitation to be a judge of the High Court.
He was a senior advocate of the Supreme Court since 1971 and also served as President of the Bar Association of India from 1991 to 2010.
Nariman served as the President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration from 1994; the Vice-Chairman of the Internal Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce from 1989; and also the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva from 1995 to 1997; among several other prominent posts.
Born in 1929 in Rangoon to Parsi parents Sam Bariyamji Nariman and Banoo Nariman, Nariman did his schooling at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla.
Thereafter he studied B.A. in Economics and History at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, followed by a law degree (LL.B.) from the Government Law College, Mumbai in, 1950, after standing first in the examination and being awarded the Kinlock Forbes Gold Medal and Prize for Roman Law & Jurisprudence.
His father initially wanted him to write the Indian Civil Service Examination.
Since he could not afford it at that time, he chose law as his last option.