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Copyright infringement not intended In News • The President of India has appointed R. Venkataramani as the new Attorney-General (A-G) for three years. • Mr Venkataramani will succeed K.K. Venugopal as Attorney-General of India. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIA • The Indian constitution under Article 76 has provided for the office of the Attorney General for India. • He is the highest law officer in the country. • He is appointed by the President of India. • He must be a person who is qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. • The term of office of the AG is not fixed by the constitution. Further, the constitution does not contain the procedure and grounds for his removal. • He holds office during the pleasure of the president. • This means that he may be removed by the president at any time. • He may also quit his office by submitting his resignation to the president. • Conventionally, he resigns when the government (council of ministers) resigns or is replaced, as he is appointed on its advice. • The remuneration of the AG is not fixed by the constitution. He receives such remuneration as the President may determine. • The Attorney General is not a full-time counsel for the Government. • He does not fall into the category of a government servant. Further, he is not debarred from private legal practice. Duties and Functions • Advise the Union Government upon such legal matters, which are referred to him by the president. • Perform such other duties of a legal chara...

New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to be appointed as the fourteenth Attorney General of India after KK Venugopal vacates the post, said sources. This will be Rohatgi’s second tenure as an AG, after he served the post for the first time between June 2014 and June 2017. Earlier, a veteran lawyer and present Attorney General KK Venugopal expressed unwillingness to continue in the top law officer’s post beyond September 30 citing health problems. Venugopal told a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court last week that his tenure ends on September 30. Widely respected as a constitutional law expert, Venugopal succeeded Rohatgi as Attorney General on July 1, 2017, for a three-year term. The 91-year-old Venugopal, who was given two one-year extensions beyond his three-year term by the Union government, repeatedly expressed his unwillingness to continue in the post. In June this year, Venugopal’s term was extended by three more months by the Centre. The government urged him to continue for three more months. He had finally agreed for a three months extension, till September 30, to allow the government to search for a new face. Now sources said the 67-year-old Rohatgi will start his second stint as the Attorney General on October 1. Rohatgi held the office of AG for three years starting from 2014 to 2017 after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government came to power. Rohatgi is a senior advocate at the Supreme Cou...

Articles 76 and 78 deal with the Attorney General of India. The Attorney General of India is the highest law officer of the country. He is responsible to assist the government in all its legal matters. The President appoints the Attorney General (AG). The person who is appointed should be qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. That means, he should be a judge of some high court for five years or an advocate of some high court for ten years. The Attorney General of India is appointed by the President of India under Article 76(1) of the Constitution and holds office during the pleasure of the President. He must be a person qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court. The 15th and current Attorney General is K. K. Venugopal.He will be succeeded by R Venkataramani as the 16th Attorney General of India on 1st October 2022. Articles 76 and 78 deal with the Attorney General of India. The Attorney General of India is the highest law officer in the country. He is responsible for assisting the government in all its legal matters. Appointment and Term of office The President appoints the Attorney General (AG). The person who is appointed should be qualified to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court. That means he should be a citizen of India and a judge of some high court for five years or an advocate of some high court for ten years, or should be an eminent jurist, in the opinion of the president. The constitution does not provide for fixed tenure t...

Contents • • Key facts • Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set take up the post of the top law officer in India from October 1. • The tenure of the current Attorney General K.K. Venugopal will end on September 30 and he refused second term in the office because of his advanced age. • Venugopal, age 91, was appointed as the Attorney General for India on June 30, 2017 and was given several extensions. • Mukul Rohatgi served as the Attorney General for three years from 2014 to 2017. • He is the son of former Delhi High Court Judge Justice Awadh Behari Rohatgi. • Mukul Rohtagi was appointed as the Additional Solicitor General in 1999, when Vajpayee was the Prime Minister. • He represented the Gujarat Government in the 2002 riot cases at the Supreme Court. • As the Attorney General, he defended the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act and the 99 th Constitution Amendment, which enabled the establishment of the National Judicial Appointments Commission to appoint judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts. • While defending the use of biometric data in the Aadhaar Case, he advocated that an individual does not have absolute right over his or her own body. • After his tenure as AG ended, Rohatgi challenged the constitutionality of Article 377, which criminalized same sex offences and held that the sexual orientation is natural and innate to a person’s identity. • He was unsuccessful in defending the Maharashtra law introducing job and admission quota for the Maratha comm...