A Stephanian and Gentleman Lawyer: Yug Mohit Chaudhry. Born and raised in Mumbai, Chaudhry studied in St Mary’s School in Mazgaon and played cricket for the Mumbai under-19 team. “My father always wanted me to be a cricketer,” he says. His father, who passed away in 1994, owned a stud farm in Gurgaon and lived for the love of horse-racing, he says. But the St Stephen’s College alumnus went on to teach English literature at the same college in Delhi University. In 1994, he left for the University of Oxford to complete his doctorate on the poetry of WB Yeats, and returned in 1998. After securing a law degree from the University of Cambridge in 2000, Chaudhry got a fellowship at Oxford University, following which his book, Yeats, the Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print, was published. On his return to India, he began practising law in Mumbai in 2001. “I started as a criminal lawyer working on legal aid in prisons and gradually moved to serious cases. I started with theft cases in the magistrate’s court, then moved on to the sessions court, then murder and appeals in the high court, but most of these cases were of those in jail. Then I moved on to death penalty. I had been researching the subject long before I started taking post-mercy petition cases. My first post-mercy death penalty case in which the execution was stayed was that of Mahendra Nath Das from Assam in 2011.”
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 02:30:03 +0000
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