Who took charge as the new attorney general for india succeeding kk venugopal in october 2022

R Venkataramani joined the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu as a lawyer in July 1977. Practising in the Supreme Court since 1979, Venkataramani was nominated as a senior advocate by the top court in 1997. He was appointed as a Member of the Law Commission, in 2010 and again in the year 2013 for another term.

By Nalini Sharma: Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is all set to make a comeback as the Attorney General of India, sources said. He is likely to assume office on October 1, after current AG KK Venugopal steps down. The Attorney General is the top law officer of the country and the Centre’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court of India. This will be Mukul Rohatgi's second stint as AG. Rohatgi, 67, took over as the Attorney General for the first three years of the BJP-led NDA government, from 2014 to 2017. In June 2017, he resigned from the post of the AG citing personal reasons. He resumed his private practice immediately after. Subsequent to Rohatgi’s resignation, senior advocate and veteran legal luminary KK Venugopal was appointed as the Attorney General from July 1, 2017. Venugopal expressed his inclination not to continue earlier this year after defending the Centre in the Supreme Court for over five years and receiving two extensions at the end of his three-year tenure. In June this year, the Centre had requested Venugopal to extend his tenure for an additional three months to give them time to find a suitable person to replace him, to which he had agreed. Venugopal’s tenure officially ends at the end of this month and Rohatgi is expected to assume office from October 1. Ministerial sources and those close to Rohatgi suggest that a meeting was held last week to discuss the matter, following which Rohatgi has given his assent to the post.

Suspense over the appointment of the new Attorney General for India following Mukul Rohatgi's decision to step down as the top law officer is finally over. Senior advocate KK Venugopal's name has been cleared for appointment, highly placed sources in the government say. Sources said the proposal to appoint the 86-year-old veteran lawyer as the successor of Rohatgi was discussed before the departure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his recent visit to the US, Portugal and Netherlands. They added, "Venugopal had a meeting with Modi before his departure for a three-nation tour." The Law Ministry had recently referred the file relating to the appointment of Venugopal as the Attorney General to the Prime Minister's Office for a final call. According to the procedure, after the decision is finalised, the President has to sign the Warrant of Appointment of the Attorney General. A recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, Venugopal would become a law officer for the second time as he was an Additional Solicitor General in the seventies during the Morarji Desai government. The veteran lawyer has been associated with several government instrumentalities and lattely, he has also been appearing for the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate before the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Venugopal's association with the BJP regime goes back to the Ayodhya movement when in 1992, he had appeared for the then Kalyan Singh Government in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, Venugopal...

New Delhi: Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi will return as the Attorney General of India, the government's top lawyer, sources said today. Mukul Rohatgi, 67, stepped down as Attorney General in June 2017. KK Venugopal took over after him. Mr Venugopal's extended tenure ends on September 30. He served as the Centre's top law officer for five years. When he completed three years in 2020, Mr Venugopal, 91, requested the Centre to let him go because of his age. The government asked him to continue for another term. He stayed on, but only for two years. Mukul Rohatgi will begin his second stint on October 1, sources say. He has also served as Additional Solicitor General of India in the past. Sources say even after Mr Rohatgi left office in 2017, the government consulted him on sensitive legal issues including the scrapping of Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. In his first term, Mr Rohatgi was appointed the government's top lawyer in 2014, soon after the BJP won a huge mandate and came to power. One of India's most high-profile lawyers, Mr Rohatgi has several important cases to his credit, including the Gujarat riots case, in which he represented the Gujarat government. He also argued the case related to the National Judicial Appointment Commission. More recently, Mr Rohatgi led the defence team of Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, who was arrested in the drugs-on-cruise case.

The Centre Government issued a notification in regards to the appointment of a new Attorney General of India. The notification issued by the Ministry of Law and Justice states, “The President is pleased to appoint R Venkataramani, Senior Advocate as Attorney General for India for a period of three years from the date he enters upon his office. Senior Advocate R Venkataramani is an eminent advocate of the Supreme Court and has appeared in various matters as varied as constitutional law, environmental law, taxation, tribal rights, and child and women’s rights. He has represented several state governments, the Union government, universities and public sector undertakings in major litigation in the Supreme Court and in High Courts. Earlier, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi declined the central government’s proposal to be appointed as the next Attorney General for India. On September 30, 2022, the term of Senior Advocate KK Venugopal as Attorney General of India is coming to an end. In June of this year, on the request of the Central Government, KK Venugopal, Senior Lawyer agreed to continue for three more months as Attorney General of India. His approved tenure was upto June 30, 2022, and he had showed unwillingness to continue because of personal reasons. KK Venugopal was appointed by the President of India as Attorney General of India with effect from July 1, 2017. He was subsequently reappointed to this post. The Attorney General for India is the Indian government’s chief lega...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate first-ever National Training Conclave in Delhi today 'From vote bank to report card politics': BJP chief Nadda lauds PM Modi for changing culture of politics After former attorney-general, Mukul Rohatgi asked the NDA government The proposal to appoint the 86-year-old veteran lawyer as the successor to Rohatgi was discussed before the departure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his recent visit to the US, Portugal and the Netherlands. A noted constitutional expert, Venugopal is the recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan. He would become a law officer for the second time after being an Additional Solicitor General during the Morarji Desai government during the seventies. He has been associated with several government instrumentalities and has been representing them as a senior advocate. Lately, he has been appearing for the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate before the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The apex court had asked him to continue in the matter despite Venugopal's replacement by the ED after he had taken a view different from the agency and the government on the removal of an investigation officer. File image of KK Venugopal. Wikimedia Commons He also represented the Madhya Pradesh Government during the hearing of National Judicial Appointments Commission Act in which he supported the validity of the central law to do away with the collegium system of appointment of judges for the higher judicia...

New Delhi: Senior advocate K K Venugopal has agreed to continue as the Attorney General for India for three more months following a request by the central government, government sources said on Wednesday. His present one-year term was to end on June 30. Venugopal, the sources said, was not willing to continue in the constitutional post due to "personal reasons". But following a request by the central government, he has agreed to continue as the top law officer of the Union of India for three more months. Section 377 hearing: Attorney General KK Venugopal recuses himself, says 'stand differs from govt's' Delinking of Aadhaar as sole means of identification for SIM cards is an interim measure: Centre tells SC Venugopal, 91, was appointed by the President of India as Attorney General for India in July 2017, succeeding Mukul Rohatgi. He was subsequently reappointed to the post. The attorney general usually has a tenure of three years. When Venugopal's first term as AG was to end in 2020, he had requested the government to give him a one-year tenure keeping in mind his advanced age. Last year too, Venugopal was reappointed for one year. In view of the high-profile cases Venugopal is handling in the Supreme Court and his experience at the Bar, the government was keen that he continued as its top law officer. An eminent advocate of Supreme Court, Venugopal has appeared in a large number of cases involving important issues of Constitutional and corporate law. He was an additional ...

With over five decades of legal experience, Venugopal is the oldest Indian to occupy the AG chamber. Venugopal, who started appearing in the Apart from being involved in many important cases before constitutional benches of the SC, he spent more than six years as amicus curiae in the infamous 2G spectrum scam case and assisted in monitoring investigations by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate. In 2015, he was conferred Padma Vibhushan award, the second-highest civilian honour in India.

Senior advocate KK Venugopal on Monday took charge as the Attorney General of India, according to reports. President Pranab Mukherjee had on 30 June approved the appointment of Venugopal as the new Attorney General of India. Venugopal, 86, who will succeed Mukul Rohatgi, had served as the Additional Solicitor General in the Morarji Desai government. He assisted the Supreme Court in a number of cases and was an amicus curiae in the 2G Spectrum scam case. The case that Venugopal handled include the Mandal case, Ayodhya dispute, the presidential reference regarding appointment of judges and also the case involving judicial appointments. He represented former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the wealth case and defended her in the petition challenging her appointment as chief minister. He argued in the presidential reference in Gujarat election case in 2002. He was also the counsel for LK Advani in the Babri Masjid demolition case, and argued against slapping of conspiracy charge against the veteran BJP leader. Venugopal's predecessor, Mukul Rohatgi, 61, had his term extended on 3 June.