The previous government’s attorney general Goolam Essaji Vahanvati passed away earlier today after a “massive cardiac arrest”, reported the Times of India, aged 65 years.
Vahanvati was the first Muslim to become attorney general of India, when he became the Congress-led government’s most senior law officer from 2009 until the BJP’s election win in 2014.
He was designated as a senior advocate in 1990, became advocate general of Maharashtra in 1999 and solicitor general in 2004.
He is survived by his wife, daughter and his son, Essaji Vahanvati, who is a partner at AZB & Partners Mumbai.
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Link for the lazy: www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/inside-man
However, in general and not in context of the late Mr Vahanvati, while obituaries should certainly be respectful of the deceased, there is no rule that they can not mention criticism or facets of their life that attracted controversy.
In any case, RIP, from what I know of him, he was a true gentleman and the profession will be poorer without him.
But why refer to him as 'first muslim'?!? If he weren't muslim , would he have been a lesser or a better lawyer?!
Even ex-CJI Balakrishnan was repeatedly referred to as 'first dalit CJI'.
Its demeaning & sort of racist!
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