Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman: the Supreme Court’s “Renaissance Man”

Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman retires today
In 1993, then Chief Justice of India M.N. Venkatachaliah amended the court’s rules to designate him senior advocate at the age of 37.
He was appointed Solicitor General in 2011.
He became only the fifth lawyer in the nation’s history to be directly appointed as judge of the Supreme Court in 2014
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Notable Works

He struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act which armed the State with power to send people to prison for “uncomfortable” social media messages.
The Supreme Court amended its rules following his judgment that review petitions filed by condemned prisoners should be heard in open court and not within the judges’ chambers.
He decriminalised homosexuality.