SKOCH India Law Award

Pinky Anand

Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General

SKOCH India Law Award

Pinky Anand

Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General

New Delhi, 14th May 2022

She is a versatile, multifaceted person, author, social activist and a leading lawyer in diverse fields. Her accomplishments extend from legal expertise in media to politics to social activities. She has worked tirelessly for the cause of social development and has achieved numerous milestones in her endeavour be it for the development of the country, the right of free speech, eradication of malpractices or the protection of children.

The causes espoused by her have led the course towards milestone changes in the legal fabric. Some of her leading cases related to the Constitutional right of freedom and expression for South Indian Actress Khushboo wherein the Supreme Court upheld the rights in a path-breaking judgment and quashed 21 cases of defamation; fighting against invidious GM food invasion; a legal battle for BJP 

L to R: Pinky Anand,Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General; Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group

Leader Arjun Munda to be made the Chief Minister of Jharkhand; delimitation case in the Supreme Court leading to Implementation of the Delimitation Commission’s orders in the Country based on 2001 Census.

As a founding member of the BRICS Legal Forum, she has represented India in various Brazil, China and India meet and is a member of the Group of Experts for Commonwealth for Drafting Model Law on Cyber Crime.

Acceptance Speech, Pinky Anand,Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General

Pinky Anand,Senior Advocate and Former Additional Solicitor General

Pinky Anand, a trustee of The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust is a designated senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the incumbent Additional Solicitor General of India. A doctorate of law, graduate of Harvard Law School, an Inlaks scholar, honorary professor at Amity Law School, she is the second woman in India to have been awarded this high constitutional law office.

Her laurels include being an alternate country councillor (India) of LAWASIA and the vice president of the Bar Association of India. She has been the recipient of the National Order of Merit awarded by the President of France, and has several awards to her credit, including those for excellence in law awarded by FICCI, Lions Club, Amity University, Bharat Nirman, PHD Chamber for Progress, Harmony and Development. She has also been a spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party and was even leading its all-India legal team at one point.

As a founding member of the BRICS Legal Forum, she has represented India in various Brazil, China and India meets.

SKOCH India Law Award

SKOCH Award, independently instituted in 2003, is India’s honest civilian honour conferred by an independent organisation as a third party assessment. It is the only award in the country that is based on feltneeds assessment and outcome evaluation based on evidence. It therefore, recognises people, projects and institutions that go the extra mile to make India a better nation.

 

SKOCH Award covers the best of efforts in the area of digital, financial and social inclusion. It encompasses the best of governance, inclusive growth, excellence in technology and applications, change management, corporate leadership, corporate governance, citizen service delivery, capacity building, empowerment and other such softer issues that get normally lost in the glamour and glitz of industry sponsored or advertising focused jamborees.

 

The SKOCH Award not only acknowledges exceptional achievers – organisations and individuals – but also spurs institutional guidance and best practices in the industry.

SKOCH Literature Award

Pinky Anand & Gauri Goburdhun

New Delhi, 14h May 2022

The book deals with some of the landmark criminal cases and provides an insight into their proceedings from a lawyer’s perspective. Through this book, the readers have a chance to relive the cases that horrified, shocked and sometimes even divided the country.

While Pinky Anand has had the chance to be involved in some of these cases herself, her keen insights and research skills are apparent in the manner she has presented them. She gives us a lawyer’s perspective on each case; a ringside view of some of the sensational trials. It includes the Rajiv Gandhi murder case, Nithari Killings, Nirbhaya, Jessica Lal and Nanavati murder case, combining simplicity and accuracy to interpret complex legal cases.

This is an attempt to involve persons dealing with constitutional responsibilities to involve themselves in public discussions. Two common threads running through the 10 chapters of this 200-odd page book are how some of the cases affected society and how society intervened to change the course of the trial.

L to R: Gauri Goburdhun, Associate P&A Law Offices: Sameer Kochhar, Chairman, SKOCH Group

SKOCH Literature Award - Trials Of Truth: India’s Landmark Criminal Cases – Pinky Anand And Gauri Goburdhun

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Book: Trials Of Truth: India’s Landmark Criminal Cases – Pinky Anand And Gauri Goburdhun

Pinky Anand & Gauri Goburdhun

A close look at criminal cases that shocked the country. Drawing on her vast experience as a senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General at the Supreme Court, Pinky Anand examines criminal cases that have captured public interest. Breaking down each aspect of cases such as the Nirbhaya rape, the Nanavati murder, the Nithari killings and others, she gives us an inside look and lawyer’s perspective into the manner of legal proceedings, strategies employed by legal counsel on both sides and the rigour with which courts come to verdicts.

Even years after they have been tried in court, these instances are cemented in people’s memories on account of either their brutality, the trials or the landmark judgments they resulted in. Anand’s insights not only delve into the finer details but also provide context to the cases that have had a lasting impact on society as well as legal institutions.

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