Died: Phiroze Ratanshaw Vakil, 81, senior criminial lawyer and public prosecutor, at Bombay’s Breach Candy Hospital following cardiac arrest on October 1, 2004.
Known to have practised criminal law "faultlessly, selflessly, with integrity and with sound knowledge of his subject” many considered Vakil "a titan in the field,” noted a tribute in The Times of India (TOI) of October 2, 2004.
A veteran of many criminal cases, to Vakil was entrusted the thankless responsibility of officiating as senior public prosecutor in the historic Best Bakery re-trial in Bombay. Following the communal carnage in Ahmedabad where many Muslims had been massacred, the entire......