Thane, Apr 16 : Renowned senior lawyer late Ram Jethmalani was felicitated posthumously with the lifetime achievement award at the dimond jubilee meet of the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, here. Besides Jethmalani, Adv Dahiryasheel Patil was also honoured with the lifetime achievement award on Thursday. The awards were given at the hands of the Supreme Court Judge Justice Abhay Oka. Also, total 24 prominent senior lawyers from the state were felicitated at the function for their service to the legal profession. Among those felicitated on the occasion included Advocates H C Bhatia, Dattatraya N Sabnis and C M Bothra from Thane, G H Lahoti (Jalna), R J Agrawal (Pune), Kalidas Pandurang Naik (Beed), V B Marathe (Solapur), V M Patkar (Goa), B B Zende (Pune), G S Bhende (Yavatmal), S P Dharmadhikari (Nagpur), V D Athare Patil (Ahmednagar), V J Dhorde (Aurangabad), A K Bhosale (Nashik), D B Wadkar (Raigad), P B Chaudhari (Nandurbar), V P Phate (Akola), A R Patil (Nagpur), A M Mangaonkar (Sindhudurg), V P Chindarkar (Sindhudurg), R L Sule (Wardha), Ujwala Pawar (Pune), R S Ramteke (Amravati) and P N Shinde (Nanded). XR SS 1901
