Tushar Mehta

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tushar Mehta

• At the age of 12, Tushar Mehta moved to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, after his father passed away.

• After completing his graduation, he began practising law at the Ahmedabad High Court in 1987. He worked as a Civil and Criminal Lawyer.

• In 1988, he began working as an apprentice under a senior advocate in the Gujarat High Court, Krishnakant Vakharia.

• In 2000, Tushar Mehta started working at the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank. At the time, the BJP senior leader Amit Shah was the president of the bank. Tushar Mehta began working closely with Amit Sah and both discussed and drafted petitions together.

• Tushar Mehta worked with Krishnakant Vakharia until 2004, and later, established his practice.

• In 2007, he was appointed as a senior advocate of the High Court of Gujarat. Later, he was appointed as an Additional Advocate General by Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home and Law.

• He has also served as a visiting faculty Lecturer at the Motilal Nehru Law College and Vivekanand Law College in Ahmedabad.

• Tushar Mehta has represented various BJP leaders as a lawyer.

• He gained fame as a lawyer in 2010 after he represented the State of Gujarat in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. In the case, Amit Shah was one of the accused. He was acquitted in 2014.

• In 2014, he became a member of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s team. In the same year, he was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of India, India’s third-highest law officer.

• In 2018, he was appointed as the Solicitor General of India.

  

• According to various reports, the Karnataka government paid Rs. 39.60 lakh to Tushar Mehta for arguing the hijab matter in the apex court on behalf of the Karnataka government. Mehta appeared 9 times in the court for the case.

• In 2023, Mehta represented the Union government in the Abrogation of Article 370 case. He fought against various organisations and NGOs who filed petitions against the central government for their decision to abrogate Article 370.

  

• In August 2024, a video of Tushar Mehta went viral. The video was of the case proceedings regarding the rape-murder of a trainee doctor by a civic volunteer of the police, at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. In the video, Mehta is seen disciplining a former Congressman and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal representing the West Bengal government.

• In the case, Tushar Mehta was representing the CBI when the opposition lawyer laughed, and in response to that, Mehta said,
  

  A girl has lost her life in the most inhuman and undignified manner. Somebody has died. Do not at least laugh.”

• He has worked on many famous cases including the INX Media Case, the Rohingya Deportation Case, and the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.