Niren De

{{Short description|Indian Attorney General}}

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| office1 = Attorney General for India{{cite book|author=PEU GHOSH|title=INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5sqiDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA445|access-date=17 January 2019|date=1 April 2017|publisher=PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.|isbn=978-81-203-5318-3|pages=445–}}

| term1 = 1 November 1968 – 31 March 1977

| predecessor1 = C. K. Daphtary

| successor1 = S. V. Gupte

| office2 = Solicitor General of India

| term2 = 30 September 1967 – 30 October 1968

| predecessor2 = S. V. Gupte

| successor2 = Jagadish Swarup

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1908|8|17}}{{cite book|title=Enlite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pf8nAAAAMAAJ|access-date=17 January 2019|year=1968|publisher=Light Publications.|page=8}}

| birth_place = Calcutta, British India

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|awards = Padma Vibhushan (1974)

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Niren De was an Indian Lawyer and was the Attorney General for India from November 1968 to March 1977 and it covered Indian Emergency.[http://www.vakilno1.com/luminaries/AttorneyGen.html Attorney General of India ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625191613/http://www.vakilno1.com/luminaries/AttorneyGen.html |date=2012-06-25 }} He was earlier the Solicitor General of India.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vakilno1.com/luminaries/SolicitorGen.html |title=Solicitor General of India |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920174712/http://vakilno1.com/luminaries/SolicitorGen.html |archive-date=2012-09-20 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.pucl.org/reports/National/2001/habeascorpus.htm |title=When the Supreme Court struck down the Habeas Corpus |access-date=2012-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526191030/http://www.pucl.org/reports/National/2001/habeascorpus.htm |archive-date=2018-05-26 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.rediff.com/news/column/inder-malhotra-on-35-years-after-the-emergency/20100623.htm What Indira Gandhi's Emergency proved for India] He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1974. He was also the Chairman of the Bar council of India.{{cite web | url=http://www.barcouncilofindia.org/about/about-the-bar-council-of-india/former-chairmen/ | title=Former Chairmen | publisher=Bar council of India | access-date=17 January 2019}}

As the Attorney General for India during Emergency, when questioned by the Supreme Court of India about the remedies available if an innocent man was to be shot dead by the Police, he is reported to have said, “Your Lordships, as long as there is Emergency, there is no remedy…that is the law…”{{Cite web |date=2023-04-28 |title=The KB Case |url=https://openthemagazine.com/columns/the-kb-case/ |access-date=2023-04-28 |website=Open The Magazine |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=A Story About a Law Officer and the Violence in His Arguments |url=https://thewire.in/law/adm-jabalpur-emergency-niren-de-tushar-mehta |access-date=2023-08-01 |website=The Wire}}{{Cite web |date=2013-07-22 |title=Two Indian women chosen to represent Britain's Labour and Conservative parties |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/international/story/19830515-two-indian-women-chosen-to-represent-britains-labour-and-conservative-parties-770652-2013-07-22 |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=India Today |language=en}}{{cite web | last=Austin | first=Tony | title=Rita Austin obituary | website=the Guardian | date=10 August 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/10/rita-austin-obituary | access-date=9 December 2024}}