@YayathiPuru wrote for @ttindia “In 1991, I joined the Supreme Court of India as a chamber junior to G. Ramaswami, the then attorney-general for India. That winter, a Constitution bench of five judges, presided over by Chief Justice H.J.Kania, was hearing a matter 1/4
related to income tax. K.K. Venugopal, senior advocate, interrupted the hearing to inform the court that a junior lady lawyer in his chamber had been picked up by the Delhi Police, on terrorism-related charges. He sought immediate hearing of his habeas corpus petition on her 2/4
behalf. The bench heard him and the attorney-general immediately ordered the detenu, Shabnam Lone (daughter of slain People’s Conference leader Abdul Ghani Lone and sister of Sajad Lone), to be produced before the trial court in Patiala House. That afternoon when she was 3/4
produced, her lawyer, the late Arun Jaitley, argued and secured her release on bail. As a young South Indian lawyer lately come from Bombay, it was wondrous for me to witness how swiftly the Supreme Court came to the rescue of Shabnam Lone.”
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