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RIP: Senior Lawyer, Former Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan passes away


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14 Aug 2019
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On Monday, Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Sharan passed away after suffering an unfortunate heart attack.

He has been reported to die at 69 in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand. He is survived by wife Madhu Sharan, also an Advocate, and two daughters and a son.

Mr. Sharan has served as an Additional Solicitor General in the Supreme Court during the UPA-I regime from 2004 to 2009. He had also been Special Counsel for CBI in the coal block allocation scam cases before the Apex Court.

He was also appointed as an Amicus Curiae by the Apex Court which was hearing a petition seeking fresh investigation in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. (Read Judgement on the said case)

He, after completing his LLB from Patna University, got enrolled as a Lawyer in 1975 and started his practice in the Patna High Court. He later shifted to Delhi and in the year 2000, he was designated as a Senior Advocate.

We pray the soul of such great serviceperson rest in peace.

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