BIO – DATA of ag shanmugasundaram
BIO – DATA
1. Name with office address telephone number, email : R. SHUNMUGASUNDARAM
No. lK, Gaiety Palace,
1, Blackers Road, Chennai –2
Ph: 044-28540646
Residence address : Shunmugas
2/227, Karpagambal Nagar 2nd Street,
Kottivakkam, Chennai – 600 041
Email:sundaramsradv@gmail.com
2. Date of Birth and Place : 29.10.1953
Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli District
3. Parents:-
a) Father
b) Mother
:
:
Late Mr.S.Rajagopal, Advocate
Former Public Prosecutor, Madurai
Late Mrs.Renganayagi,
Home Maker
4. Positions held in legal, educational and social organization/associations : 1) Member of Parliament
(Rajya Sabha 2002-2008)
2) Senior Advocate since 2000
3) Public Prosecutor,
Madras High Court (1996-2001)
4) Addl.Public Prosecutor,
Madras High Court (1989-1991)
5) President of
The Madras Bar Association
(2015-2017)
6) Member of
Supreme Court Bar Association,
New Delhi
Madras Bar Association
5. Achivements : Conducted several cases before the Supreme Court of India, High Courts and other Courts.
Successfully prosecuted former Chief Minister, Ministers and high ranking Public Officials in cases of bribery and corruption and for their criminal misconduct
6. Other informations relevant :
(a) Professional experience and training:
Enrolled as advocate in the year 1977; trained as a junior of Thiru. N. Natarajan, Senior Advocate, 1977-80; also gained experience in criminal law from father, Late. Thiru. S. Rajagopal, a leading Advocate and former Public Prosecutor, Madurai and Special Public Prosecutor for CBI; Appointed as Additional Public Prosecutor of the Madras High Court, and worked during 1989-91, conducted prosecutions on behalf of the State, the C.B.I., the Railways etc. at the Madras High Court;
Appointed as, (i) Counsel for the State of Tamil Nadu before Mr. Justice M.C. Jain Commission of Inquiry to assist the enquiry into the assassination of former Prime Minister, late Shri Rajiv Gandhi and (ii) ‘amicus curiae’ by the Madras High Court to assist the Court in Crl. O.Ps. 21969 and 22506 of 2001 relating to London Hotel Case, considering the public importance and sensitive nature of the case;
(b) as Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, June 1996 – May 2001, conducted prosecutions in more than several hundred criminal appellate matters, hundreds of Habeas Corpus Petitions and appeared for the State in writ petitions involving important questions of law and Human Rights issues before the High Court and the Supreme Court;
Pursued the Letters of Request – (Letters Rogatory) issued by Special Courts, Chennai, worked with Serious Fraud Office at London and the Attorney General’s Criminal Division at Canberra, Australia for collecting evidence at UK, Malaysia and Australia against former Chief Minister Selvi. Jayalalitha and others.
(c) was designated as Senior Advocate in July, 2000 by the Madras High Court;
(d) Member, Indian Delegation to the United Nations, in October, 2004 participated in the 59th General Assembly at the UN. Participated in the International Conference on “The Right to Basic Education as a Fundamental Human Right and the Legal Frame work for its Financing” organized by the Ministry of National Education in collaboration with UNESCO of Jakarta Indonesia, 2nd to 4th December 2005.
(e) Sponsored by the British Council as a scholar during September-October, 1992, to study the ‘Developments in Criminal Law in Britain’ and attended court works at the Old Bailey Central London Criminal Courts, Croydon Crown Court and Royal Courts of Justice, London, gained work experience at the Crown Prosecution Department, Manchester and studied the investigation procedures adopted in Irish terrorist acts, observed the working system of the legal aid and probation systems in Great Britain, and was invited to discuss about the then newly introduced Criminal Justice Act, 1992 by the Home Office, London, (ii) visited Malaysia and Australia in 1998 to study the Criminal Court procedures in those countries and interacted with the Members of Judiciary, Prosecutors and Defence Attorneys.
(f) visited several countries.
(g) Notable Guest Lectures given on Law:-
(i) Lectures in the refresher courses conducted by the Prosecution Departments of the States of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, 1997-2000.
(ii) Lecture in the Department of Law, University of Wales, United Kingdom in November 1999, on invitation
(iii) Presented a paper on “Judicial Activism and Judicial Overreach by Indian Courts” on 4th July 2007 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Russel Square, London.
(iv) Talk at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on 21st July 2006 on “Indian Reservation Policy”.
(v) “Anti-Money Laundering Legislation: Effective or Redundant” Presented as a paper in the 16th Commonwealth Law Conference (CLC 2009) at Hongkong held between 5th to 9th of April 2009.
(vi) Gave the opening lecture on ” The Prevention of Financial Crimes and Money Laundering” at the UIA seminar at Ankara, Turkey in August, 2010
(vii) Talk on “Reforms on Criminal Justice System” in a seminar conducted on 26th August 2006 at Madras University Department of Criminology and the Indian Institute of Public Administration.
(viii) Addressed the delegates of the International Conference jointly organized by the Indian Society of Victimology and the Madras University Department of Criminology on 7th February 2007 at Chennai on the topic “Victims of Corruption and Criminal Justice System”
(ix) Guest lecture at the Seminar on Juvenile Justice (Case and Protection of Children) Act 2000 at Meenakshi College, Chennai on 1st September 2007.
(x) Giving periodic lectures at the Judicial Academy, Chennai, for sub-ordinate judicial officers.
