HARISH N. SALVE

Just like “Amitabh Bachchan” is the king of Bollywood, similarly Mr. Harish Salve is considered as a “Big B”of Supreme Court of India, meaning hereby a great person a great Lawyer. His father Late Mr. N.K.P. Salve was a chartered Accountant and was the Minister in Congress Government. Similarly Mr. Harish Salve was initially a Chartered Accountant but later on after completing his LL.B. he became an Advocate.

He is basically from Bombay Bar Association. Has a good clientage from Maharashtra. Mr. Salve has been the Ex-Solicitor General of India in 1999 and started his practice under his senior Mr. Soli J. Sorabjee Senior Advocate of Supreme Court of India.

He was born on 22nd June 1956 in Nagpur (Maharastra). His grandfather Late Shri P.K. Salve was a great Criminal Lawyer, his Great Grandfather was a subordinate Judge and his mother Mrs. Amriti Devi was a doctor by profession. He did his internship in J.B. DadaChandji and Co. and later was declared as designate Senior Advocate by Delhi High Court due to his extraordinary command on Law.

He started his practice as a taxation lawyer and has a retainership of some good companies of India like Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., Tata group, Steel King Mittal’s, LalitModietc. Several times he has been appointed as a “Amicus Curiae” in cases like Environment and Forest Conservation, pollution cases BS-IV Engines etc. He also appeared at International Court of Justice on Behalf of India against Pakistan to rescue “KulbhushanJadhav”.

Today, Mr. Harish Salve is one of the top most Lawyer of Supreme Court who argued several and several important cases of India like famous Vodafone’s Income Tax case of Supreme Court which was argued for several days in Supreme court by Mr. Salve. The Vodafone multinational Company has lost his case from Bombay High Court but Mr. Harish Salve putting his enormous energy in the case and with his hard work in Supreme Court had represented Vodafone Company and finally won this case. Young Lawyers and many Law interns present inside the Courtroom learned a lot from the arguments of Mr. Harish Salve.

He was the first Lawyer in the Country who argued the first Anti-Dumping Case in the Supreme Court of India, he appeared in the famous case of Krishna Godavari Basin Gas dispute case against Mr. Mukesh Ambani’s younger brother and owner of Reliance Natural Resources Ltd. Mr. Anil Ambani. In this legal war inside the CJI’s Courtroom of Supreme Court,Mr. Salve defeated one of the biggest legal Giant of India Late Shri “Ram Jethmalani” the Senior Advocate of Supreme Court. Everyone was watching this case which went for several days in which Mr. Harish Salve was representing Mr. Mukesh Ambani and Mr. Jethmalani was representing Mr. Anil Ambani. The age difference between the two Senior Advocates was notable but Mr. Harish Salve really gave a tough fight to Late Shri Jethmalani and the delight came up in favour of Mr. Salve.

Mr. Harish Salve was one of the leading Lawyer who also argued the famous case of “Arushi murder” case in Supreme Court. In the year 2018 a Bollywood movie named “Padmavat” (Padmavati) directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali was ready to be released, but KarniSena of Rajasthan and other few community in the society sincerely objected upon the release of this movie but the makers of the movie moved a Writ Petition in Supreme Court for justice and this case / Writ Petition was also argued by Mr. Harish Salve and the Court was kind enough to consider the release of the movie all over India with some security and safety measures of general public.

Salve played a Key role in striking down Section 66A of the Constitution of India which considered sending offensive messages through communication service etc. punishable. He was also the “amicus curiae” in 2002 Gujarat Riots Cases including that of BilkisBano. And the List of such type of interesting cases argued by Mr. Salve is almost endless.

Mr. Salve is really a famous, experienced and one of the top most Lawyer. He likes to read and listen light musicsome times plays Piano at home. He is very regular and extremely particular with his cardio and workout regime. He has been conferred the “Padma Bhushan” on Republic Day in 2015. He is a Barrister and has a office in London where he regularly goes by his private plane for arbitration and other cases.Some times it becomes difficult to contact his office for consultation with Mr. Salve as he generally remains very busy, he appears both at India and London and other High Courts as and when required.