Honour of a spiritual legal practitioner! K Parasaran bestowed with 'Most Eminent Senior Citizen Award'
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New Delhi, October 21: India's legal luminary, scholar and former Attorney General, K. Parasaran was bestowed with ‘Most Eminent Senior Citizen Award’ by the Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday at a function at the India International Centre in New Delhi.
Parasaran was honored with the Award on the occasion of the Elder’s Day celebration of Age Care India, an organization working for the welfare of the elderly. Conveying his appreciation to Parasaran, the Vice President said, “today, at 92 years, Shri Parasaran stands tall among the entire length and breadth of India in terms of knowledge of law, knowledge of Shastras, erudition and ethics and is rightly referred to as a ‘Pitamaha’ of the Indian Bar”.
The VP further added that the Award was a fitting recognition of Parasaran’s exceptional contribution to the field of law and justice as well as his extra ordinary personality and the event was a celebration of the incredible positive energy of a deeply spiritual legal practitioner, who has tried to blend both 'dharma' and 'nyaya'.
"Known for his erudition, discipline, hard work, honesty and ethics, K. Parasaran’s legal canvas has been wide. With equal felicity, Parasaran, throughout his distinguished career, had handled a wide array of cases, be they serious constitutional matters or inter-State water disputes”, Said the Vice President.
K. Parasaran was Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu during President's rule in 1976 and then, Attorney General of India under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Parasaran was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the year 2003 and Padma Vibhushan in the year 2011. In June 2012, he received a presidential nomination to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of India's parliament.
The Vice President urged the present generation of lawyers to draw inspiration from K Parasaran and imbibe the qualities of professional excellence and ethical orientation which he personified.