{"id":35073,"date":"2014-09-03T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35073"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:59:29","slug":"former-attorney-general-india-g-e-vahanvati-died-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/former-attorney-general-india-g-e-vahanvati-died-mumbai","title":{"rendered":"The former Attorney-General of India G.E. Vahanvati died in Mumbai."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Attorney-General of India G.E. Vahanvati died in Mumbai on Tuesday following a heart attack. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Mr. Vahanvati was appointed as the 13th AG from June 2009 for a three-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Prior to his appointment as the top law officer, he had served <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/former-attorney-general-india-g-e-vahanvati-died-mumbai\/goolam-essaji-vahanvati\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?fit=636%2C584&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"636,584\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Goolam Essaji Vahanvati\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?fit=150%2C137&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?fit=272%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-35074\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati-272x250.jpg?resize=272%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Goolam Essaji Vahanvati\" width=\"272\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?resize=272%2C250&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?resize=150%2C137&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Goolam-Essaji-Vahanvati.jpg?w=636&amp;ssl=1 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a>as the Solicitor-General of India between June 20, 2004 and June 7, 2009. He was earlier the Advocate General of Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">In 2012, his term as Attorney General was extended by another two years. He resigned on May 27 this year after the BJP-led government headed by Narendra Modi took over power at the Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Born on May 7, 1949, Mr. Vahanvati obtained a law degree from Government Law College in Mumbai after graduating from St. Xavier\u2019s College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">He was suffering from a lung infection for some time and was admitted to a city hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Attorney-General of India G.E. Vahanvati died in Mumbai on Tuesday following a heart attack. He was 65. Mr. Vahanvati was appointed as the 13th AG from June 2009 for a three-year term. Prior to his appointment as the top law officer, he had served as the Solicitor-General of India between June 20, 2004 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[29661],"class_list":["post-35073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bar-bench-firm-news","tag-the-former-attorney-general-of-india-g-e-vahanvati-died"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The former Attorney-General of India G.E. 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