| Niren De | |
| Office1: | Attorney General for India[1] |
| 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: | 1908 8, df=yes[2] |
| Birth Place: | Calcutta, British India |
| Awards: | Padma Vibhushan (1974) |
Niren De was an Indian Lawyer and was the Attorney General for India from November 1968 to March 1977 and it covered Indian Emergency.[3] He was earlier the Solicitor General of India.[4] [5] [6] He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1974. He was also the Chairman of the Bar council of India.[7]
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…”[8] [9]
His daughter Pramila Le Hunte was the first Asian woman to stand in a UK general election as a Conservative Party candidate.[10] She was a candidate in the 1982 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election before standing unsuccessfully in Birmingham Ladywood at the 1983 United Kingdom general election, losing to Clare Short.[11]