India, Oct. 8 -- Former Union minister of law and justice and senior advocate of the Supreme Court, Ashwani Kumar, will attend the Pantheonisation ceremony of eminent French jurist and humanist Robert Badinter in Paris on October 9 following an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron.

Kumar, who has had warm relationship with the French political leadership in the past and has also served as President of the Indo-French Parliamentary Friendship Group, thanked the French President for the invite.

"Mr. Badinter was a distinguished humanist, jurist, and a statesman of France who was a relentless crusader for the abolition of death penalty. I had the honour of knowing Mr Robert Badinter, a former Justice Minister of France and Pres...