Harish Salve Biography: Wife, Daughter, Religion, Education, Caste, Fees and Net Worth

Do you know who is Harish Salve? Harish Salve is a successful and prominent Indian lawyer who practices in constitutional, taxation, and commercial law. He primarily practices at the Supreme Court of India but also appears in different high courts and international arbitral disputes. Equally, he draws huge media attention as a lawyer for Salman Khan. 

Harish Salve served as a Solicitor General of Indian from 1999 to 2002. He is the 18th most powerful man in India. Harish is also the most expensive lawyer in the country. His grandfather, P.K. Salve, was a noted criminal barrister, and his great-grandfather, father of P.K Salve was a munsif (subordinate critic). Further, read here to know more about Harish Salve Wiki.

Harish Salve Short info

• Name: Harish Salve
• Born: 22 June 1955
• Age: 65 years,
• Birth Place: Sindkheda
• Profession: Indian advocate
• Spouse: Meenakshi Salve
• Education: Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
• Children: Sakshi Salve, Saaniya Salve
• Parents: N. K. P. Salve, Ambriti Salve
• Awards: Padma Bhushan

Harish Salve Biography

Harish Salve was born in 1955, June 22 in Warud, Sindkheda, Dhule, Maharashtra State, India to N. K. P. Salve and Ambriti Salve. His father was a chartered accountant and politician of the Indian National Congress Party, on the other hand, his mother Ambriti was a doctor. He had a legal family background where his grandfather was a successful criminal lawyer. When it comes to Harish Salve education, Salve did his schooling at St. Francis De’Sales High School in Nagpur.

He achieved his Chartered Accountancy from ICAI and LLB from Nagpur University. Besides, Harish was passionate about music from early childhood but fortunately turned his career into the legal field.

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Wiki/career

Harish Salve began his career exploration as a chartered accountant and practiced chartered accountancy in taxation. But a big turning point in Salve’s career came in the year 1975 with Harish Salve internship. In 1980, he began his legal career as an intern and later on as a full-time lawyer at J.B. Dadachandji & Company. During this time, he served Nani Palkhivala in the Minerva Mills case.

Later, Salve was designated as a Senior Counsel by the Delhi High Court. From 1980 to 1986, Salve toiled with former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee. At the age of 43, in November 1999, Salve became the Solicitor General of India and carried the office till 2002.

He also strived for Tata Group and ITC Limited. Harish made an outstanding performance in the case of Vodafone in its $2.5 billion dispute with the Indian Government.

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 Personal life, Wife, Daughter

Harish Salve Wife is Caroline Brossard at present. And his first wife was Meenakshi Salve. When speaking of Harish Salve Daughter – together (Meenakshi and Harish) have two daughters named Saniya Salve and Sakshi Salve. Additionally, Harish Salve religion is Christianity and no specific details are available on Harish Salve caste.  

Hirish Salve First Wife Meenakshi Salve

Harish Salve Marriage Caroline Brossard. Image source: India.com

Harish Salve twitter

Salve is quite active on social media platforms. Kiran K.S a popular figure in online and media platform once wrote – Harish Salve’s father was a senior Congress leader. He is a Christian. His descendant in law is a Muslim.

Harish Salve lifetime income, Fees, Net worth

He is India’s most expensive lawyer. Harish Salve fees range between Rs 6 lakh to Rs 15,000 lakh per appearance. Also, there are times when his fee would go up to Rs 30 lakh a day. Harish Salve Net Worth is expected to be close to Rs. 200 crores.

House address

Harish Salve contact address or residence located at 42, Poorvi Marg, Vasant Vihar in New Delhi. The house has five bedrooms. It is constructed on an 800-sq yard plot and has a built-up area of 6,000 square feet across three levels. The ground floor has two bedrooms, the kitchen, a dining room, and the living room. The first floor has three bedrooms. Harish Salve office is located in the basement of the bungalow.