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Mukul Rohatgi Likely To Return As Attorney General On October 1: Reports

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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.

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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“Idol Of Lord Ram Will Be Installed In The Temple Around 14 January 2024”: Ram Janamabhoomi Trust Gen Secy

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Earlier, the Ram Mandir Trust meeting was held at the Circuit House of Ayodhya, in which discussions were held on mainly three topics.

Ayodhya: The idol of Lord Ram will be placed at the sanctum sanctorum in the Grand Ram temple in Ayodhya around January 14, 2024, said Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust general secretary, Champat Rai, on Monday.

He said that the ground floor of the grand temple that is presently under construction will be ready by the end of next year, i.e. December 2023. “Ram Mandir Construction Committee’s meeting has concluded. The ground floor of the temple (Ram Mandir) will be ready by December 2023 and after 15 days i.e around 14 January 2024, idol of Lord Ram will be installed in the temple,” said Rai.

Earlier, the Ram Mandir Trust meeting was held at the Circuit House of Ayodhya, in which discussions were held on mainly three topics. The construction cost of the temple was one of them, which after an 18-month deliberation has been estimated at Rs 1,800 crore.
The cost was revised in the past which had earlier come out to be Rs 400 crore.

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“Meeting of Shri Ram Janamabhoomi trust was held. We discussed construction expenses of the Ram temple and it was estimated to be Rs 1,800 crore which could be changed later. The rules of the trust and other statues to be installed in the temple were discussed too,” said Rai.

“When the construction of the temple started, the cost of it was not able to be decided. After consideration, it came to the fore that its cost may come to Rs 400 crore. But when it was considered further, the cost kept changing. The discussions were on for 18 months and it came to the fore that its cost could come to around Rs 1,800 crore which could be changed later. Discussions were held on the rules and regulations to be followed in the trust. The rules were ultimately finalised,” he added.

The meeting of the Building Construction Committee is held every month.
The foundation stone for the construction of Ram Temple’s ‘Garbha Griha’ or the sanctum sanctorum of the temple was laid by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in June this year.

The construction of the temple of Lord Ram in Ayodhya is going on at a fast pace. On August 5, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the construction of the Ram temple and since then the construction work of the temple has been going on.

The five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi (now retired) had on November 9, 2019, unanimously delivered its verdict that the land in Ayodhya where Babri Masjid once stood, belongs to Ram Lalla.

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