Legendary Lawyer & Former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan Passes Away

Acclaimed lawyer Shanti Bhushan, Senior Advocate, passed away at his home in Delhi at 7PM today. He was aged 97 years.

He was the lawyer who represented Raj Narain in the legendary case in Allahabad High Court which resulted in unseating Indira Gandhi as the Prime Minister in 1974. He has taken up several causes of great public interest and was a vocal activist against corruption and a champion of civil liberties.

He served as the Law Minister of India from 1977 to 1979 in the Morarji Desai Ministry. In 1980, he founded the famous NGO 'Centre for Public Interest Litigation', which has filed several important PILs in the Supreme Court. He along with his son Prashant Bhushan, also a lawyer-activist, started the 'Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Judicial Reform (CJAR)' pressing for judicial accountability.

In 2018, he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking changes in the 'master of roster' system, which was not accepted.

Watch the interview of Shanti Bhushan taken by LiveLaw in 2020 here