Sources said senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to become the Attorney General of India for the second time. He is likely to assume office on October 1.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to return as Attorney General of India (file photo)
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- Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi set to return as Attorney General of India
- This will be Rohatgi’s second term as Attorney General of India
- He will take over after the current AG KK Venugopal quits
Sources said senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is all set to return as the Attorney General of India. He is likely to take over on October 1 after the current AG KK Venugopal quits.
The Attorney General is the top law officer of the country and the top lawyer of the Center before the Supreme Court of India.
This will be Mukul Rohatgi’s second term 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 AG citing personal reasons. Soon after, he resumed his private practice.
Following Rohatgi’s resignation, senior advocate and veteran legal scholar KK Venugopal was appointed as the Attorney General with effect from July 1, 2017. Venugopal expressed his desire not to continue earlier this year after defending the Center in the Supreme Court for more than five years and receiving two. Extension at the end of his three-year term.
In June this year, the Center had requested Venugopal to extend his tenure by three more months to give him time to find a suitable person to replace him, which he had agreed to.
Venugopal’s term officially ends later this month and Rohatgi is expected to take over from October 1. Ministerial sources and people close to Rohatgi suggest that a meeting was held last week to discuss the matter, after which Rohatgi has given his consent. Post.
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