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Sidharth Luthra | |
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 Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra | |
| Born | 16 February 1966 |
| Alma mater | Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, University of Cambridge (MPhil) |
| Occupation | Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India |
Sidharth Luthra (Hindi: सिद्धार्थ लूथरा; born 16 February 1966) is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. In July 2012, Sidharth Luthra was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of India at the Supreme Court and represented the union and various state governments in matters relating to fundamental rights, electoral reforms, criminal law and policy issues.[1][2] He resigned from this position in May 2014.[3] He is the son of K.K. Luthra who was also a senior advocate and brother of senior advocate Geeta Luthra.[4][5]
Luthra specialises in criminal law, white-collar crimes and cyber frauds.[6] He studied law at the University of Delhi where he completed his LLB in 1990 and then did an MPhil in Criminology from the University of Cambridge in 1991.[6] He was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law by Amity University, Noida, India, in 2015.
Luthra represented former Union Minister of Finance, Late Shri Arun Jaitley in the criminal defamation lawsuit filed by him against the Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Arvind Kejriwal.[7]
Luthra is also a member of the Delhi State Legal Services Authority and the Vice-President of the Indian Criminal Justice Society. He also sits on the advisory board of two Indian legal journals, the Delhi Law Times and the Delhi Reported Judgements. Luthra dedicates nearly 30 to 40 percent of his cases to pro bono.[8]
Apart from litigation, Luthra also teaches law in India and abroad. He is a visiting professor at Northumbria University at Newcastle, United Kingdom[9] and an Honorary Professor at the Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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- ^ "The Debrief: ASG Sidharth Luthra on creativity, criminals, success and tea with kindly judges". Legally India. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
- ^ "Law officers line up to resign". The Times of India. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ Nangia, Tarun (15 January 2020). "Siddharth Luthra and his mother". NewsX. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ Singh, Nandita (20 October 2018). "The LSR graduate who's a lawyer representing both MJ Akbar and Tarun Tejpal". The Print. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Criminal law is a great career option for students: Sidharth Luthra". Hindustan Times. 29 May 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ "Arun Jaitley files defamation case against Kejriwal, next hearing on January 5". India Today. 21 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
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