C. Aryaman Sundaram is an Indian lawyer who practices in the

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. He is famously one of the wealthiest and most highly remunerated lawyers in India, as well as one of the most well-connected, with a distinctive creativity and originality in theory and argumentation. He is often referred to as one of India's 'Legal Eagles' - one of the absolute foremost lawyers in India. He was the youngest in the history of the

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to be designated as a

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. He has represented the Board of Control for Cricket in India,

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and several other high-profile clients at various judicial forums, including representing the Mistry family against Tata & Sons, the Travancore Devaswom Board in matters relating to the Sabarimala Temple and its admissions policy, Haldia Petrochemicals and

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, Khushwant Singh against pre-release banning and suppression of his book, Minister V. Senthil Balaji, and Nikhil Gupta as charged for the attempted assassination of Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. Sundaram primarily practices corporate law but also takes up constitutional law and media related cases. He was a lawyer in the S. Rangarajan case which resulted in one of the landmark judgments on the freedom of speech and expression. He is a member of the greater Calamur family, with

Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer Sir Chetput Pattabhiraman Ramaswami Iyer (12 November 1879 – 26 September 1966), popularly known as Sir C. P., was an Indian lawyer, administrator and politician who served as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency from 1920 to 1923, Law ...

for a grandfather and Justices Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri and C.V. Viswanatha Sastri as great-uncles, in addition to his actual uncle and

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-era Minister for Law,

C. R. Pattabhiraman Chetput Ramaswami Iyer Pattabhiraman ( ta, சேத்துப்பட்டு ராமசவாமி ஐயர் பட்டாபிராமன்) (11 November 1906 – 19 June 2001) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the I ...

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