Anand Grover

With the Lawyers Collective Grover led the Naz Foundation's legal case for the repeal of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was a law criminalizing homosexuality in India.{{cite web |url=http://www.legallyindia.com/20090817134/Interviews/anand-grover-the-lawyer-who-fought-the-377-law-and-won |title=The lawyer who fought the 377 law and won: Anand Grover |author=Kian Ganz |date=17 August 2009 |work=legallyindia.com |accessdate=9 April 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110407221142/http://www.legallyindia.com/20090817134/Interviews/anand-grover-the-lawyer-who-fought-the-377-law-and-won| archivedate= 7 April 2011 | url-status= live}}

Grover led the Lawyers Collective court case against Novartis regarding an interpretation of Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights which would determine the patent status of antiretroviral drugs in India. The result of the case was that the Lawyers Collective prevailed and certain drugs became ineligible for patenting, thus keeping the price of the medications in line with generic medication costs.{{cite web |url=http://www.amfar.org/world/treatasia/article.aspx?id=194 |title=An Interview with Anand Grover—Fighting AIDS in Court |author=TREAT Asia Report |date=October 2008 |publisher=amfAR |accessdate=9 April 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110406142750/http://www.amfar.org/world/treatasia/article.aspx?id=194| archivedate= 6 April 2011 | url-status= live}}

Grover represented the Cancer Patients Aid Association as an attorney and won the legal fight against drug maker Novartis on the issue of patent of cancer drug Glivec.{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323296504578395672582230106|title=Novartis Loses Glivec Patent Battle in India|last=Krishna|first=R. Jai|date=2013-04-01|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2019-06-26|last2=Whalen|first2=Jeanne|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}

On the night before Yakub Memon was scheduled to be executed, Anand Grover along with other senior lawyers of the Supreme Court, sought appointment from the Chief Justice of India, H. L. Dattu at his residence. After the Chief Justice constituted a 3 Judge bench, Grover argued for the mandatory 14-day period between the rejection of the mercy plea of a condemned prisoner, and the execution of the death warrant, as per the guidelines set by the Supreme Court of India in the Shatrughan Chauhan vs Union of India case.{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/59968841/|title=Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr vs Union Of India & Ors on 21 January, 2014|website=indiankanoon.org|access-date=2019-06-26}} Grover argued that an earlier mercy petition submitted to the President was by his brother, and that since all the legal remedies available to the prisoner, including a curative petition, stood exhausted only a day before his scheduled hanging, only the final mercy petition submitted by Yakub himself must be taken into account while evaluating upon the 14-day period. However the Supreme Court rejected the argument noting that Yakub had not disowned the earlier mercy petition by his brother. The bench commented that delaying Yakub's hanging anymore would amount to travesty of justice.{{Cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/news/india/supreme-court-hears-yakub-memons-plea-on-death-warrant_1638223.html|title=SC refuses stay on Yakub Memon's hanging: As it happened|date=2015-07-29|website=Zee News|language=en|access-date=2019-06-26}} Grover expressed disappointment and unhappiness over the judgement and termed it as a tragic mistake.{{Cite web|url=http://in.news.yahoo.com/very-disappointed-unhappy-says-memons-lawyer-anand-grover-235443960.html|title='Very disappointed and unhappy', says Memon's lawyer Anand Grover|website=in.news.yahoo.com|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-06-26}}

Grover represented Shreya Tripathi in her successful efforts to obtain bedaquiline for the treatment of her extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.{{cite news|url=https://thewire.in/health/multi-drug-resistant-tb-bedaquiline-deaths|website=The Wire|author=Jennifer Furin|title=TB Killed Shreya Tripathi, But Her Death Could Have Been Avoided|date=30 March 2019}}

Grover is a member of the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights and a Special Rapporteur in the United Nations Human Rights Council. His duty in this position is to promote the right to physical and mental health.{{cite web |author= |date=11 July 2008 |title=Strong HIV and Human Rights Activist appointed as new UN Special Rapporteur |url=http://www.unaids.org/en/Resources/PressCentre/Featurestories/2008/July/20080711SpecialRapporteur/ |accessdate=9 April 2011 |work=UNAIDS press center |publisher=UNAIDS}}

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In 2015 Hansal Mehta's Bollywood film Aligarh, Actor Ashish Vidyarthi played the role of advocate Anand Grover.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-26 |title=Not Manoj Bajpayee, Hansal Mehta says he initially wanted to cast Govinda in Aligarh: 'I don't know what happened…' |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/not-manoj-bajpayee-hansal-mehta-reveals-he-wanted-to-cast-govinda-for-aligarh-i-dont-know-what-happened-8957108/ |access-date=2023-09-26 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090826035913/http://lobis.nic.in/dhc/APS/judgement/02-07-2009/APS02072009CW74552001.pdf Court report from result of Article 377 trial]

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