Renowned Constitutional Expert AG Noorani Passes Away

Eminent constitutional scholar and legal commentator Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani, popularly known as A.G. Noorani, passed away today in Mumbai. He was aged 94 years.Noorani, born in Mumbai in 1930, obtained his law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai. He has practised in the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court.He is known for his columns on legal and political developments published in various mainstream newspapers and magazines.He was the author of numerous books, including “The Kashmir Question”, “Badruddin Tyabji”, “Ministers' Misconduct”, “Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security”, “The Presidential System”, “The Trial of Bhagat Singh”, “Constitutional Questions in India”, “The RSS and the BJP: A Division of Labour,” and “The RSS: A Menace to India.”Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah expressed condolences by writing on social media platform X : "Sorry to hear about the demise of A G Noorani Sb earlier today. Noorani Sb was a man of letters, an accomplished lawyer, a scholar & a political commentator. He wrote extensively on matters of law and on subjects like Kashmir, RSS and the constitution"Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi, posted on X : “AG Noorani, a giant among scholars has passed away. I learnt a great deal from him, from the constitution, to Kashmir, to China & even the art of appreciating good food. May Allah grant him maghfirah.”One of the legends of written law in India #AGNoorani passed away today at 3:20pm at his residence in Mumbai.He was 94Rest in power Noorani sahab. Your magisterial writings will be the abstracts and chronicles of our times. pic.twitter.com/FZtvirm4h3— SANJAY HEGDE (@sanjayuvacha) August 29, 2024 The great A.G. Noorani is no more. His caregiver says he died this afternoon in Bombay. Ghafoor, as his friends called him—and I am proud to have been among their ranks—had been ailing for some time but was still working furiously on a book he had hoped to complete, on the…— Siddharth (@svaradarajan) August 29, 2024 The brilliant scholar, constitutionalist and the author of sharp prose A.G. Noorani is no more. I always thought he would make a fine President- erudite and a keen interlocutor of Indian history and constitution. https://t.co/WLoXDtuOPv— Jhuma (@courtinglaw) August 29, 2024

Renowned Constitutional Expert AG Noorani Passes Away

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