Senior Advocate, Delhi High Court

New Delhi :

Palecanda Nanju Ganpathy is among the 12 advocates, who have been designated as Senior Advocates by the Delhi High Court recently.

A 1980 law graduate from Delhi University, Nanju Ganpathy did his schooling from Air Force Bal Bharti School in Delhi and thereafter graduated from St. Stephen’s College in History Honours.

After completing his Law, he spent about 5 years as a junior lawyer undergoing the rigours of law practice, with two different Advocates. In 1986, he appeared in a tough internal examination conducted by the Supreme Court of India, passing of which exam, entitles an Advocate to be designated as an Advocate-On-Record of the Supreme Court and enables him to file cases in the Supreme Court. Nanju passed the exam and obtained the 2nd position.

He later joined AZB & Partners, one of the leading law firms in India, and was a partner there for many years conducting litigation on behalf of various Multi-National Companies and specialised in media and a variety of other laws.

He also represented the Government of Karnataka for over 4 years before the Supreme Court as their Standing Counsel.

Son of late Palecanda Appachu Ganpathy and late Sita Ganpathy (Pandanda) and son-in-law of Nervanda Mothi Muthanna and Shanti (Kandrathanda), Nanju is said to be the first Kodava to have been designated as Senior Advocate by the Delhi HC.

The other 11 advocates who have been given the silk are: Satish Tamta, B.B. Gupta, Sachin Puri, Anil Airi, Arun Kathpalia, Sunil Mittal, Ajay Burman, Sudhir Makkar, Arun Verma, P.D. Gupta and Sanat Kumar.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Thursday – April 28th, 2016