The Union government has strengthened its legal team by giving extensions to the incumbent top law officials, and at the same time, inducting six new Additional Solicitors General (ASGs).
The government has extended the terms of Attorney General (AG) KK Venugopal and Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta for one and three years respectively.
Five serving ASGs- Vikramajit Banerjee, Aman Lekhi, Madhavi Goradia Divan, K.M. Nataraj and Sanjay Jain also got three years’ extension.
To represent the Central government before the Supreme Court for three years, the Cabinet committee appointed six senior advocates Balbir Singh, Suryaprakash V. Raju, Rupinder Singh Suri, N. Venkataraman, Jayant K. Sud and Aishwarya Bhati as ASGs.
Besides reappointing Anil C. Singh as the ASG for the Bombay High Court and Satya Pal Jain for Punjab and High Court, five new ASGs have also been appointed for different High Courts for a period three years. Yezdezard Jehangir Dastoor have been appointed for the Calcutta High Court, Chetan Sharma for the Delhi High Court, R. Sankaranarayanan for the Madras High Court, Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh for the Patna High Court and Devang Girish Vyas for the Gujarat High Court.
