Harish Salve KC is an Indian senior advocate who practices at the Supreme Court of India.
25 Facts About Harish Salve
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Harish Salve served as the Solicitor General of India from 1 November 1999 to 3 November 2002.
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Harish Salve fought the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav at the International Court of Justice.
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Harish Salve who is a Christian, grew in a multi-religious family with a liberal secularism at his home.
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Harish Salve did his schooling at St Francis De'Sales High School, Nagpur, Maharashtra.
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Harish Salve completed his Chartered Accountancy from ICAI and LLB from Nagpur University.
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Harish Salve was later designated a Senior Counsel by the Delhi High Court.
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Harish Salve worked with former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee, from 1980 to 1986.
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Harish Salve declined to be nominated for a second three-year term due to "personal reasons" when his first term ended in November 2002.
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Harish Salve later clarified that his wife was unhappy with him bringing work home.
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Harish Salve was appointed as Amicus Curiae by the Supreme Court in some cases, mostly relating to preservation of the environment.
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In 2013, Harish Salve was admitted to the English Bar and subsequently joined the Blackstone Chambers.
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Harish Salve argued the first Anti-Dumping case in the Supreme Court of India.
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Harish Salve frequently represents large corporations like Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited.
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Harish Salve has appeared in the Krishna Godavari Basin gas dispute case against the latter's brother, Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources Limited.
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Harish Salve represented Vodafone in its $2.5 billion tax dispute with the Indian government.
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Harish Salve initially lost the case in the Bombay High Court, but later won it at the Supreme Court after taking a temporary residence in London and relocating his office there to focus solely on the case.
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Harish Salve was extremely critical of the Indian government for passing a retrospective clarification to the Income Tax law in the 2012 Union Budget, which nullified the Supreme Court's decision.
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Harish Salve appeared for Bilkis Bano, a victim of the Gujarat Riots, at the behest of the National Human Rights Commission in 2003.
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Harish Salve appeared as a defence counsel in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case.
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Harish Salve first married to Meenakshi Salve and their marriage lasted for good 38 years.
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Harish Salve divorced Meenakshi in the June 2020 and married Caroline Brossard, a London-based artist, on October 28,2020.
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Harish Salve had first met Brossard at an art event.
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Harish Salve has two daughters, Sakshi and Saaniya, from his first marriage.
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On September 3,2023, Harish Salve married to Trina in London at a ceremony attended by notable figures like Nita Ambani and fugitives from Indian law like Lalit Modi and Moin Qureshi.