Senior advocate and former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan has passed away aged 97 on Tuesday.
Shanti Bhushan represented Raj Narain in a case in Allahabad High Court, which resulted in the unseating of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
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Raj Narain, leader of Ram Manohar Lohia’s SSP, had lost the Rae Bareilly Lok Sabha seat to Indira Gandhi, following which he filed an appeal to nullify Indira Gandhi’s election, citing corrupt electoral practices. Shanti Bhushan was the advocate for the case.
He later served as the law minister from 1977 to 1979 in the Morarji Desai government.
His son, Prashant Bhushan, is a lawyer and an activist.