Mukul Rohatgi will begin his second stint on October 1, reported NDTV. He has also served as Additional Solicitor General of India earlier.
New Delhi: Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi is likely to return as the Attorney General of India, the government’s top lawyer, sources said on Tuesday.
Mukul Rohatgi, 67, stepped down as Attorney General in June 2017. KK Venugopal succeeds him. Mr Venugopal’s extended tenure ends on September 30. Mr Venugopal 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 citing his age. The government asked him to continue for another term. He stayed on, but only for two years.
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Mukul Rohatgi will begin his second stint on October 1, reported NDTV. He has also served as Additional Solicitor General of India earlier.
According to Sources, Mr Rohatgi left office in 2017, the government consulted him on sensitive legal issues including the scrapping of Article 370 which 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 in the general elections and came to power.
Mr Rohatgi, who is one of India’s most high-profile lawyers, has several important cases to his credit, including the 2002 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.
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