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Fertile land of Sindh once again
proved its nature of being the land of
genius & great personalities, This
time it was Shikarpur, where on 14
September 1923, in the house of
Shri Boolchand Gurmukhdas Jethmalani,
Shrimati Parbati Boolchand has given
birth to male child.
Intelligence of the kid can be judged
from his triple promotion in the
school and passing the L. L. B. at the
tender age of 17 years. We are talking
about none else but Shri Ram
Jethmalani, for whom Chief justice
of Sindh was forced to pass a
special resolution about the rules, so
the 17 year young Jethmalani, can join
the Bar.
In the year 1947 on September
5 he got married with Ratna and God
has blessed them with two sons and two
daughters. After the partition his
family shifted to Bombay and soon he
become famous for his cross
examination in the court room. His
decision of being present as the
defense council for the smuggler Haji
Mastan brought him first fame and the
case of Kehar Singh [the man behind
the assassination of Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi] has made him front
page news of almost all the newspapers
for many days. Today it is said that
he is the number one criminal
lawyer of the country.
Many adjectives say hot
temper, witty, hilarious, Amazing,
interesting, ever young etc. of
English dictionary finds association
with the personality of this Sindhi
lawyer and most controversial Indian
Politicians. His wisdom and
understanding of law and constitution
is such high that when in 1980's
constitution of newly formed Bhartiya
Janta Party was written he was
involved in it with Sunder Singh
Bhandari & Sikandar Bakhat.
In the field of politics he
had crossed many mile stones including
the office of law ministry at
centre. [Union Minister Of Law,
Justice and Company Affairs 1996].
Some of famous incident from his term
in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government
at center in the ministerial capacity
are still corner talk in the meetings
of BJP leaders. When he become
Minister for Urban Development,
DDA was facing several court cases
related with the allotments of flats
and was paying very heavily in the
form of fees to lawyers. Jethmalani
took the DDA officials to these
colonies asked about the availability
of electricity and water, without
which no one will go there for living.
He forced the system to work for the
welfare of common citizen and save the
money and time. He was also in the
headlines of news papers and other
media for asking daily ten question to
Rajiv Gandhi.
His resignation from the
post of Union Law Minister was also an
eventful and hilarious happening at
least for the law students of Pune -
Maharashtra, Jethmalani was stepping
down from the Lonavala hills to reach
Pune for this meeting. On the way of
this journey he got message from Prime
Minister asking to resign him. On
reaching Pune he delayed the
interaction with Law student and
entered in the auditorium only after
the fax of his resignation was sent to
P M O. When he start his speech
his first words were " friends please
excuse me because I am not the same
Jethmalani for whom you gathered here.
You have waited for over a hour for
the Law Minister Jethmalani but sorry
to inform I don't hold the post at
this moment." Common people and Law
students in auditorium took this as
yet another hilarious talk of
Jethmalani and were able to find
seriousness only after coming out.
Through out his political
career his always remained in center
of conflicts for his state forward
comments on the given situations.
During his Long illustrated political
and social life, he worked as member
of
International Bar Association [1996]
Sixth & Seventh Lok Sabha
Committee on Subordinate Legislation
Rajya Sabha [1994 -1996]
Committee on Transport and Tourism
[1993 - 1996]
Committee on Home Affairs [1996-1997]
Rajya Sabha [ 1988 from Karnataka &
1994 from Maharashtra]
Ram Jethmalani is said to
be lawyer of criminals but it
is one aspect of his life [Profession]
the other aspect of his life will
reflect from the Human Rights Award
which was awarded to him in the
year 1977. He is young of 85 years,
who still is naughty and eager to
share experiences with girl friends
and found enough enthusiasm to talk
and discuss the topic even with young
modern boy.
He also belongs to
selective class of writers, not only
his many articles are published in
Indian Express and Illustrated weekly
and other law journals but also his
two book namely
[1]
Conflicts of Laws [1955]
[2] Justice Soviet Style
are
published. This doesn't conclude the
portrait of works and achievements of
hono'ble Shri Ram Jethmalani. We at
The Sindhu World pray Waheguru to
bless him with more years of life so
we can keep on adding new facts to
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