The central authorities has determined to nominate Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi as the subsequent Lawyer Normal for India, efficient Oct. 1, the Indian Specific and Bar & Bench reported on Tuesday.
The Lawyer Normal for India is a constitutional publish and is appointed by the President of India and advises the federal government on authorized issues.
Thought of among the many prime legal professionals of the nation, Rohatgi earlier served as the primary Lawyer Normal of the Narendra Modi-led authorities between 2014-2017.
Throughout this tenure, he appeared within the Nationwide Judicial Appointments Fee case, argued for the central authorities searching for invalidation of Triple Talaq, the prison defamation matter, and the Aadhaar-PAN linkage case, amongst others.
Previous to this, Rohatgi had additionally served because the Extra Solicitor Normal underneath the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led authorities.
Rohatgi was succeeded by Senior Advocate KK Venugopal, whose time period ends on Sept. 31.
Submit the completion of his time period in 2017, Rohatgi went again into personal follow and has since then appeared in a number of excessive profile circumstances, together with the decriminalisation of Part 377; the Future Retail Ltd.- Amazon dispute in addition to the case involving Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
Identified for his candor, Rohatgi spoke with BQ Prime shortly after finishing his tenure as AG again in 2018.
He had shared his views on the unprecedented media convention by 4 senior judges calling it as “out of the bizarre”, including that “having been part of this group for 40 years now, don’t subscribe to this press convention. It ought to have been handled contained in the courtroom”.
On the parallels between the apex courtroom’s verdict in Triple Talaq and Sabarimala circumstances, he had mentioned:
In a 4:1 verdict, the Supreme Court docket had granted ladies, of all age teams, entry into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, breaking the temple’s age-old custom of proscribing menstruating ladies from coming into its premises.
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