Soli Jahangir sorabjee was born on 9 March 1930 in Bombay. Soli Sorabjee was an Indian jurist who served as the attorney general of India from the period of 1989 to 1990; he was again the attorney general of India from 1998 to 2004. He studied at the St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. Sorabjee was a renowned human rights lawyer. He was first admitted to the bar in 1953.
He was later designated as a senior advocate of the Bombay high court in 1972. Soli sorabjee was involved in some of the biggest constitutional law cases in the Indian history, including the landmark case of Kesavananda Bharati in 1973. Soli Sorabjee was a constitutional expert and free speech advocate.
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Soli Sorabjee was appointed by the United Nations as a special reporter for Nigeria in the year 1997, to report the condition of human rights in Nigeria. In 1998 he became a member and later the chairman of the UN sub commission on the promotion and protection of human rights. He has also served as the member of the permanent court of Arbitration at The Hague from the year 2000 to 2006. He was the member of the United Nations sub commission on the prevention of discrimination and protection of minorities. During his profession, sorabjee was involved in several landmark cases including Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala. He was also involved in SR Bommai v. Union of India.
He was a member of the government’s legal delegation in Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India. He appeared in the case of BP Singhal v. Union of India, in which the supreme court of India held that state governors could not be dismissed from service without some due cause. He was the vice president of the commonwealth lawyers association and as well as a member of the committee on arms control and disarmament law of the international law association. And also as a lawyer, helped and provided legal assistance to the political prisoners when India was under emergency measures.
PUBLICATIONS
Soli sorabjee mostly wrote articles on human rights and its protection, and its issues. He also wrote a lot about freedom of speech and expression. He was a regular contributor to the Indian express newspaper. In 1976 he published “THE LAWS OF PRESS CENSORSHIP IN INDIA”. He also published several other books like THE EMERGENCY CENSORSHIP AND THE PRESS IN INDIA, LAW AND JUSTICE: AN ANTHOLOGY in 2004. He also wrote on fundamental rights, the constitution and the governor, constitutionalism and rights.
AWARDS
In 2002, Soli Sorabjee was awarded with the Padma Vibhushan which is the country’s second highest civilian honor, for his defense of freedom of speech and protection of human rights. He was also awarded with the Australian honor for his outstanding contribution to the development of closer links between Australia and India in the legal field.
