Indira Jaising Age, Caste, Husband, Family, Biography & More

A Few Lesser-Known Facts about Indira Jaising

• Indira Jaising has been a prominent Indian lawyer. She has actively participated in promoting human rights and raising several issues regarding women and gender equality.

• Indira Jaising was born in Mumbai, and she completed her education there. Further, she pursued a bachelor’s degree in Arts from Bangalore University. Following thisIn 1962, she attended the University of Bombay for her LLM post-graduate diploma.

• Indira Jaisingh, after starting her own law practice began taking cases relating to human rights. Indira Jaisingh became a prominent lawyer in India and began to fight for human rights. for The country’s human rights and gender equality.
  

  After a court hearing, Indira Jaising

• Anand Grover was the senior lawyer she married. for He was active in Indian Indian law on homosexuality, HIV and other issues. They founded Lawyers Collective together in 1981. This NGO specialized on left-wing and feminism.

• In 1986, the High Court of Bombay designated her as the first senior advocate. She was alive during this She was involved in some of the most prominent and well-known legal cases in India at the time. One such case was Rupan Deol Bjaj vs KPS Gill in 1988. KPS Gill was at that point the Director-General Police Punjab and Rupan deol Bajaj was an I.A.S. officer.
  

  KPS Gill & Rupan Deol

• The case caught the attention of many. for KPS Gill was finally sentenced in 2005 to a Rs. KPS Gill was sentenced to a three-year probation, and also paid a fine amount of Rs. Also, she is known as for The High Court of Kerala successfully challenged the Indian Divorce Act.

• (2015) She was elected to the Supreme Court. for Priya Pillai, Green Peace India. She represented herself against the Supreme Court in 2016, challenging the process of designating senior advocates. ^[3]Bar and Bench

• Indira Jaising was the founder secretary of the Lawyers Collective, and she was also the founder of a monthly magazine titled “The Lawyers” in 1986 that covered the topics of social justice and women’s issues in the context of Indian law.
  

  Indira Jaising started The Lawyers Magazine

• In appreciation of her hard work, the Indian President gave her Padma Shree for Public affairs 2005

• She supported her argument for discrimination against women and fought Mary Roy’s case. It was a successful outcome as the court granted inheritance rights in Kerala to Syrian Christian women. ^[4]The Wire

• Her country has represented it at several international and national conferences on women and related topics. However, in 2019, their NGO ‘Lawyers Collective’ had to face a problem when the Ministry of Home Affairs barred them from receiving foreign fundings, and their license was suspended as well on the basis of violating the foreign funding norms. ^[5]India Today
  

  Indira Jaising and her team of attorneys

• Jaising was a successful lawyer in several cases that represented victims of sexual harassment of powerful persons, including the case against KPS Gill (DGP of Punjab).  She made national headlines in January 2020 when she recommended Asha Devi (the mother of the Delhi Gang Rape victim 2012) to forgive the rapists. Nirbhaya’s mother slammed Indira Jaising for It was absurd for her to make such a suggestion when she was senior counsel fighting for women’s rights. ^[6] The Times of India
  

  Indira Jaising and Asha Devi (Nirbhaya’s mother)

• In 2018, Indira Jaising was listed on the “World’s 50 greatest leaders” by Fortune magazine. ^[7]She The People