| T R Andhyarujina | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tehmtan Rustomji Andhyarujina 17 November 1931 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | [Senior Advocate] |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Spouse | [Siloo Andhyarujina] |
Tehmtan R. Andhyarujina is a Senior Advocate practising at the Supreme Court of India. In September 2008, he completed 50 years at the bar.
He was the Solicitor-General of India from 1996 to 1998. Prior to that he was the Advocate-General of Maharashtra from 1993 to 1995. He specializes in the field of Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Public Law and Commercial Law.He is widely regarded for his expertise in a special branch of Constitutional Law relating to parliamentary Privileges.
He was a student of the Government law College, Bombay between 1955 to 1957. He was awarded the Sir Charles Sergeant Scholarship and the Vishnu Dhurander Gold medal in law by the Bombay University.
He was selected for the Indian Foreign Service in 1958 but opted to practise law. He was a Counsel in the Chamber of the foremost Constitutional Law authority of India, Mr. H M Seervai, the then Advocate-General of Bombay from 1958 to 1974 and appeared for the State of Maharashtra in the Bombay High court and the Supreme Court of India alongside him.
Some of the important cases in which he has appeared in the Supreme Court are: Kesavananda Bharati v. The State of Kerala case, The Parliamentary Privileges Case (In Re: Keshav Singh), Sexual Harassment of Women case (Vishakha v. State of Rajasthan), the Narmada, Cauvery and Krishna River Water Disputes Cases, the Legislative Assemblies Dissolution case (S. R. Bommai v. Union of India), Hindustan Lever and Tomco Merger case, JMM Bribery case (P.V. Narasimha Rao v. State), Raja Ram Pal vs. Hon’ble Speaker (Cash for Query:expulsion of MPs by Parliament), I.R. Coelho vs. State of Tamil Nadu (Constitutional validity of the IXth Schedule to the Constitution), Ashoka Kumar Thakur v. Union of India, Glanrock Estate v. State of Tamil Nadu, and Aruna Shanbaug v. Union of India (the recent case that permitted passive euthanasia in India).
He was the Chairman of the Committee on Banking Laws (Andhyarujina Committee) appointed by the Government of India in 1998 which led to the passing of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets & Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002(SARFAESI Act). He is a member of the Task Force on the Committee on Centre–State Relations Review appointed by the Government of India, 2007.
He was a part-time Professor in Constitutional Law in the University of Bombay, a Visiting Lecturer at Queen’s University of Belfast in 1990 and a Honorary Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, Symbiosis Law School, Pune and other leading law colleges in India.
He is the author of “Judicial Activism and Constitutional Democracy in India” (1992), “Judges and Judicial Accountability” (2002) and writes frequently on Constitutional and Public Law in law journals and news papers. His son Zal T. Andhyarujina is a practising advocate in Mumbai.