Advocate general of karnataka

By Press Trust of India: Senior advocate Devadatt Kamat on Wednesday tendered his resignation to the Karnataka governor from the post of additional advocate general (AAG) of the state. Devadatt Kamat, who was appointed as the advocate general (AAG) to represent the state in the Supreme Court in 2015 by the Congress- Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) government, resigned a day after the coalition lost the trust vote in the assembly.

Prabhuling Navadgi (PN): My father was a judge. But ironically, he did not want me to do law. He in fact wanted me to be a doctor and he actually persuaded me to join a medical college. But somehow, I always fancied law right from my childhood days…I was possibly subconsciously being influenced by my father's tenure first as a lawyer and thereafter a judge. My interest in political science and law was always there even in my pre-university days etc. The overwhelming presence of my father in the profession possibly made me take up the choice of the legal profession. It was so much part of our family. Lawyers coming in, judges coming in, us visiting some of the judges. So you could say that though there were no formal discussions about these things, the observations were always there. PN: If you trace back the history of the post of the Advocate General, there was a suggestion that the Law Minister of the country should be appointed as Attorney General and the Law Minister of a State must be appointed as the Advocate General. But then, it was turned down saying that we require a law officer of the State or Central government, who should not only be apolitical, but also independent. Therefore, the post of Advocate General was created. I think there is no requirement that the Advocate General should resign immediately after the political dispensation changes. But the highest traditions have always marked that because he is the choice of the government of the day, it is the gov...

Governor Vajubhai Vala appointed senior advocate Prabhuling K. Navadgi as the Advocate-General of Karnataka on Saturday evening. The appointment comes after Uday Holla, who was appointed Advocate-General by the coalition government, resigned after the government collapsed. Mr. Navadgi had been serving as the Additional Solicitor General for Government of India (High Court of Karnataka) since 2015. Son of former High Court judge K.B. Navadgi, he was designated as senior advocate in 2014. He served as the Additional Advocate-General of Karnataka in 2011. He was appointed Advocate-General of the State on May 17, 2018, the day B.S. Yediyurappa took charge as Chief Minister after the Assembly polls. But he resigned after Mr. Yediyurappa failed to prove majority and the coalition government took office. Mr. Navadgi has now been reappointed.

Madhusudhan R. Naik has been appointed as the Advocate General of the State government. Sources in the Law Department told The Hindu that a notification has been issued appointing Mr. Naik, following the resignation of Ravivarma Kumar. Mr. Naik, who graduated from Maharaja College of Mysore and later obtained a law degree from University of Mysore in 1976, has been practising in the High Court of Karnataka as a senior advocate from November 10, 2006. He started independent practice in 1986. He was appointed amicus curiae in cases pertaining to protection of elephants and later nominated to the Karnataka State Wildlife Board. He appeared for KIADB, BDA, Human Rights Commission, and Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission. He was special counsel for the State government in Transport Department Service Matters.