{"id":223079,"date":"2019-12-10T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T08:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=223079"},"modified":"2020-11-28T22:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T17:27:04","slug":"remembering-adv-lily-thomas-supreme-courts-senior-most-woman-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2019\/12\/10\/remembering-adv-lily-thomas-supreme-courts-senior-most-woman-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Adv. Lily Thomas, Supreme Court&#8217;s senior most woman advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supreme Court advocate Lily Thomas, responsible for striking down of Section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to disqualify a legislator immediately when convicted for two or more years&#8217; prison, has passed away at the age of 91 in the early hours of December 10, 2019 at Max Hospital in New Delhi\u2019s Patparganj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in Kottayam, Kerala, Lily Thomas joined\u00a0Madras High Court in 1955 and later went on to become the first woman to complete the LLM course from\u00a0Madras University. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>She was the first woman in India to qualify for an LLM degree<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Striking down of Section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2013, at the age of 85, she won a landmark judgement in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/JhP6v7MX\">Basant Kumar Chaudhary v. Union of India, (2013) 7 SCC 653<\/a><\/strong>, under which members of India&#8217;s Parliament and members of state legislative bodies, convicted of a crime or in jail, became ineligible to run for elections or hold an elected seat. Prior to this judgment, members of Parliament who were convicted but had filed an appeal could go about their regular business, including being elected and holding seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lily Thomas, along with advocate Satya Narain Shukla had field a\u00a0Writ petition in the Supreme Court in 2005, challenging Section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act which protects a convicted lawmakers against disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal against their conviction in the higher courts. On 10 July 2013, a bench of A K Patnaik and S J Mukhopadhaya, JJ held that,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Parliament had no power to enact sub-section (4) of Section 8 of the Act and accordingly sub-section (4) of Section 8 of the Act is ultra vires the Constitution&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Consequently, it was held,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;if any sitting Member of Parliament or a State Legislature is convicted of any of the offences mentioned in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) of Section 8 of the Act and by virtue of such conviction and\/or sentence suffers the disqualifications mentioned in sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) of Section 8 of the Act after the pronouncement of this judgment, his membership of Parliament or the State Legislature, as the case may be, will not be saved by sub-section (4) of Section 8 of the Act which we have by this judgment declared as ultra vires the Constitution notwithstanding that he files the appeal or revision against the conviction and\/or sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Conversion for bigamy<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/7qzPO5sm\">Lily Thomas v. Union of India, (2000) 6 SCC 224<\/a>, <\/strong>Lily had filed the petition in the Supreme Court on status of the earlier marriage regarding a case when a non-Muslim gets converted to the &#8216;Muslim&#8217; faith without any real change or belief without divorcing first wife. On May 5, 2000, the bench of S. Saghir Ahmed and RP Sethi, JJ held that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>c<\/em><em>hange of religion does not dissolve the marriage performed under the Hindu Marriage Act between two Hindus<\/em><\/span>. It said,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Apostasy does not bring to an end the civil obligations or the matrimonial bond, but apostasy is a ground for divorce under Section 13 as also a ground for judicial separation under Section 10 of the Hindu Marriage Act. Hindu law does not recognise bigamy. As we have seen above, the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 provides for \u201cmonogamy\u201d. A second marriage, during the lifetime of the spouse, would be void under Sections 11 and 17, besides being an offence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Court had further held that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>mere conversion does not bring to an end the marital ties unless a decree for divorce on that ground is obtained from the court<\/em><\/span>. Till a decree is passed, the marriage subsists. Any other marriage, during the subsistence of the first marriage would constitute an offence under Section 494 read with Section 17 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and the person, in spite of his conversion to some other religion, would be liable to be prosecuted for the offence of bigamy.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Petition challenging the validity of the &#8216;Advocate on Record&#8217; system<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lily Thomas was one of the first advocates to file a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the validity of the &#8216;Advocate on Record&#8217; system on 14 January 1964. In <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/f2Pw7xLU\">In re Lily Isabel Thomas, AIR 1964 SC 855<\/a><\/strong>, she had argued that as an advocate entitled to practise in this Court, she was entitled as of right not merely to plead but also to act, and that the Rules of this Court which prescribe qualifications before she could be permitted to act were therefore invalid. She, hence, sought that Rule 16(1) of Order IV of the Supreme Court Rules as amended in 1962 which contains this prescription of qualifications be declared ultra vires. Though her petition failed but it paved way for many more petitions that have been filed in this regard and the issue of the AOR system has been debated many time ever since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>(Image courtesy: We, The People Abhiyan)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court advocate Lily Thomas, responsible for striking down of Section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 to disqualify <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":223090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191,42505],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-op-ed","category-tributes-and-obituaries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remembering Adv. 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