Mukul Rohatgi stepped down as Attorney General in June 2017. KK Venugopal took over after him.
Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi will return as the Attorney General of India, the authorities’s top legal professional, sources said these days.
Mukul Rohatgi, 67, stepped down as Attorney General in June 2017. KK Venugopal took over after him.
Mr Venugopal’s prolonged tenure ends on September 30. He served because the Centre’s pinnacle regulation officer for five years.
When he finished three years in 2020, Mr Venugopal, ninety one, requested the Centre to permit him move because of his age. The authorities asked him to hold for some other term. He stayed on, but simplest for two years.
Mukul Rohatgi will begin his second stint on October 1, sources say. He has additionally served as Additional Solicitor General of India within the beyond.
Sources say even after Mr Rohatgi left office in 2017, the government consulted him on touchy legal issues consisting of the scrapping of Article 370 that granted unique status to Jammu and Kashmir.
In his first term, Mr Rohatgi became appointed the authorities’s top lawyer in 2014, quickly after the BJP gained a huge mandate and came to power.
One of India’s maximum high-profile attorneys, Mr Rohatgi has numerous vital instances to his credit, along with the Gujarat riots case, wherein he represented the Gujarat authorities. He also argued the case associated with the National Judicial Appointment Commission. More currently, Mr Rohatgi led the defence group of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who became arrested in the medicine-on-cruise case.