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{{Politics of India}}

The '''Minister of Law and Justice''' is the head of the [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Ministry of Law and Justice]] and one of the [[Cabinet minister (India)|cabinet ministers]] of the [[Government of India]]. The first Law and Justice minister of independent India was [[B. R. Ambedkar]], who served in [[first Nehru ministry]] during 1947–52. [[Kiren Rijiju]] is the current Law and Justice minister of India.

==List of Law & Justice Ministers==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!No.
! Name
! Portrait
! colspan=2|Term of office
! colspan=2| Party
! Prime Minister
|- style="height: 50px;"
|1
| [[B. R. Ambedkar]]<ref>[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/a.pdf RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: A]</ref>
| [[File:Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.jpg|50px]]
| 26 January 1950
| 11 October 1951
| rowspan=9|[[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=9|
| rowspan=4|[[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|2
| [[Kailash Nath Katju]]
|
| 05 November 1951
| 13 May 1952
|- style="height: 50px;"
|3
| [[Charu Chandra Biswas]]<ref>[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/b.pdf RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: B]</ref>
|
| 13 May 1952
| 17 April 1957
|- style="height: 50px;"
| rowspan="2" |4
| rowspan=2|[[Ashoke Kumar Sen]]<ref name=s>[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/s.pdf RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: ]</ref>
| rowspan=2|[[File:Ashokesen1.JPG|100px]]
| rowspan=2|12 May 1957
| rowspan=2|24 January 1966
|- style="height: 50px;"
| [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|5
| [[Gopal Swarup Pathak]]
|
| 24 January 1966
| 13 March 1967
| rowspan=4|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|6
| [[Panampilly Govinda Menon]]
|
| 13 March 1967
| 23 May 1970
|- style="height: 50px;"
|7
| [[Kengal Hanumanthaiah]]
|
| 26 June 1970
| 18 March 1971
|- style="height: 50px;"
|8
| [[H. R. Gokhale]]
|
| 18 March 1971
| 26 March 1977
|- style="height: 50px;"
|9
| [[Shanti Bhushan]]<ref name=s />
|
| 26 March 1977
| 28 July 1979
| [[Janata Party]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Morarji Desai]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|10
| [[Hans Raj Khanna]]
|
| 30 July 1979
| 03 August 1979
| rowspan=2|[[Janata Party (Secular)]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Party (Secular)/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|[[Charan Singh]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|11
| [[S. N. Kacker]]
|
| 03 August 1979
| 14 January 1980
|- style="height: 50px;"
|12
| [[P. Shiv Shankar]]<ref name=pss>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2586.htm |title=Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha : SHIV SHANKER, SHRI P. |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235903/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2586.htm |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| 14 January 1980
| 15 January 1982
| rowspan=7|[[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=7|
| rowspan=2|[[Indira Gandhi]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
| rowspan="2" |13
| rowspan=2| [[Jagannath Kaushal]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2766.htm |title=8th Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : KAUSHAL, SHRI JAGANNATH |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726015548/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2766.htm |archive-date=2014-07-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|15 January 1982
| rowspan=2|31 December 1984
|- style="height: 50px;"
| rowspan=5|[[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|(4)
| [[Ashoke Kumar Sen]]<ref name=s />
|[[File:Ashokesen1.JPG|100px]]
| 31 December 1984
| 31 March 1987
|- style="height: 50px;"
|(12)
| [[P. Shiv Shankar]]<ref name=pss />
|
| 25 July 1987
| 14 February 1988
|- style="height: 50px;"
|14
| [[Bindeshwari Dubey]]
|
| 14 February 1988
| 26 June 1988
|- style="height: 50px;"
|15
| [[B. Shankaranand]]<ref>[http://164.100.47.192/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1956.htm Tenth Lok sabha] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624134124/http://164.100.47.192/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1956.htm |date=2016-06-24 }};, Members Bioprofile; SHANKARANAND, SHRI B.; [[Lok Sabha]]/[[National Informatics Centre]]</ref>
|
| 25 June 1988
| 02 December 1989
|- style="height: 50px;"
|16
| [[Dinesh Goswami]]<ref>[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/g.pdf RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: G]</ref>
|
| 2 December 1989
| 10 November 1990
| [[Asom Gana Parishad]] ([[National Front (India)|National Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Asom Gana Parishad/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[V. P. Singh]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|17
| [[Subramanian Swamy]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2614.htm |title=Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha: SWAMY, DR. SUBRAMANIAN |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022506/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2614.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[File:Subramanian_Swamy.JPG|75px]]
| 21 November 1990
| 21 June 1991
| [[Janata Party]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Chandra Shekhar]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|18
| [[Kotla Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2550.htm |title=Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, 12th Lok Sabha: REDDY, SHRI KOTLA VIJAYA BHASKARA |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013151707/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/2550.htm |archive-date=2016-10-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| 21 June 1991
| 09 October 1992
| rowspan=2|[[Indian National Congress]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|19
| [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]
|
| 09 October 1992
| 16 May 1996
|- style="height: 50px;"
|20
| [[Ram Jethmalani]]
| [[File:Ram Jethmalani.jpg|122x122px]]
| 16 May 1996
| 1 June 1996
|rowspan="1"|[[Independent politician|Independent]]
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Independent/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|21
| [[P Chidambaram]]
|
| 1 June 1996
| 29 June 1996
| [[Tamil Maanila Congress]] ([[United Front (India)|United Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Tamil Maanila Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan=2|[[H. D. Dewe Gowda]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
| rowspan="2" |22
| rowspan=2|[[Ramakant Khalap]] ''(MoS, Independent Charge)<ref>[http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/3703.htm Biographical Sketch, Member of Parliament, XI LOK SABHA : KHALAP, SHRI RAMAKANT D.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017210303/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/biodata_1_12/3703.htm |date=17 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>Minister of State (Independent Charge)</ref>
| rowspan=2|
| rowspan=2|29 June 1996
| rowspan=2|19 March 1998
| rowspan=2|[[Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party]] ([[United Front (India)|United Front]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=2|
|- style="height: 50px;"
| [[Inder Kumar Gujral]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|23
| [[M. Thambidurai]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3205 |title=Sixteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile : Thambidurai,Dr. Munisamy |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605054040/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3205 |archive-date=2014-06-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|
| 19 March 1998
| 08 April 1999
| [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
| rowspan=6| [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|24
| [[P R Kumaramangalam]]
|
| 09 April 1999
| 08 June 1999
| rowspan=1| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|- style="height: 50px;"
|(20)
| [[Ram Jethmalani]]
| [[File:Ram Jethmalani.jpg|98x98px]]
| 08 June 1999
| 23 July 2000
|rowspan="1"|[[Independent politician|Independent]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Independent/meta/color}}" rowspan=1|
|- style="height: 50px;"
|25
| [[Arun Jaitley]] ''(As MoS, Independent Charge till 7 November 2000)''<ref>Jaitley was Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice till 7 November 2000, then was Union Cabinet Minister</ref>
| [[File:The official photograph of the Defence Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| 23 July 2000
| 01 July 2002
| rowspan=3| [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=3|
|- style="height: 50px;"
|26
| [[Jana Krishnamurthy]]<ref>[http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/k.pdf RAJYA SABHA MEMBERS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, 1952 - 2003: K]</ref>
| [[File:Jana1.JPG|60px]]
| 01 July 2002
| 29 January 2003
|- style="height: 50px;"
|(25)
| [[Arun Jaitley]]
| [[File:The official photograph of the Defence Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley (cropped).jpg|75px]]
| 29 January 2003
| 22 May 2004
|- style="height: 50px;"
|27
| [[H. R. Bhardwaj]]
| [[File:The_Union_Law_Minister_Shri_H.R._Bhardwaj_briefing_the_Press_in_New_Delhi_on_October_19,_2004.jpg|75px]]
| 22 May 2004
| 22 May 2009
| rowspan=5| [[Indian National Congress]] ([[United Progressive Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}" rowspan=5|
| rowspan=5| [[Manmohan Singh]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|28
| [[Veerappa Moily]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=4343 |title=Sixteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Moily, Dr. M. Veerappa |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022647/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=4343 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[File:Veerappa Moily BNC.jpg|75px]]
| 31 May 2009
| 19 July 2011
|- style="height: 50px;"
|29
| [[Salman Khurshid]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3523 |title=Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Khurshid, Shri Salman |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023011/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3523 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[File:Salman Khurshid portrait.jpg|75px]]
| July 2011
| 28 October 2012
|- style="height: 50px;"
|30
| [[Ashwani Kumar (politician)|Ashwani Kumar]]
| [[File:Ashwani Kumar at the India Economic Summit 2008.jpg|75px]]
| 28 October 2012
| 10 May 2013
|- style="height: 50px;"
|31
| [[Kapil Sibal]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=4077 |title=Fifteenth Lok Sabha, Members Bioprofile: Sibal, Shri Kapil |access-date=2018-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003042/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=4077 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| [[File:Kapil Sibal.jpg|75px]]
| 11 May 2013
| 26 May 2014
|- style="height: 50px;"
|32
| [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]]
| [[File:Ravi_Shankar_Prasad_At_Office.jpg|75px]]
| 26 May 2014
| 9 November 2014
| rowspan=4|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]] ([[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]])
|width="4px" bgcolor="{{Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color}}" rowspan=4|
| rowspan=4| [[Narendra Modi]]
|- style="height: 50px;"
|33
| [[D. V. Sadananda Gowda]]
| [[File:Sadananda_Gowda.jpg|75px]]
| 9 November 2014
| 5 July 2016
|- style="height: 50px;"
|(32)
| [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]]
| [[File:Ravi_Shankar_Prasad_At_Office.jpg|75px]]
| 5 July 2016
| 7 July 2021
|- style="height: 50px;"
|34
| [[Kiren Rijiju]]
|[[File:Kiren Rijiju.jpg|105x105px]]
| 7 July 2021
| Incumbent
|}

== List of Ministers of State ==
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible style=" ;"sortable mw-collapsible"
|+Ministers of State For Law and Justice
! [[Minister of state]]
! Portrait
! colspan=2| Political party
! colspan="2" | Term
! Days
|-align=center
|[[P. P. Chaudhary]]
|[[File:P.P. Chaudhary delivering the inaugural address at the Plenary Session of the three-day International Competition Network Annual Conference 2018 (ICN2018), organised by the Competition Commission of India, in New Delhi.jpg|100px]]
|Rowspan=2|[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|Rowspan=2 bgcolor=#FF9933|
|5 July 2016
|30 May 2019
|{{Age in days|2016|07|05|2019|05|30}} days
|-align=center
|[[S. P. Singh Baghel]]
|
|7 July 2021
|Incumbent
|{{Age in days|2021|07|07}} days

|}
==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180302035008/http://lawmin.nic.in/ Law & Justice Minister Ministry, Official website]

{{Heads of the Ministries of the Government of India}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Law and Justice Minister Of India}}
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[[Category:Justice ministers|India]]

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