Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi on Sunday refused to take over because the Attorney General. Rohatgi’s first time period as AG was from June 2014 to June 2017.
The authorities had taken observe of Rohatgi’s identify to succeed the present AG, KK Venugopal, who had beforehand been a reporter in The Indian Express. Sources mentioned Venugopal, who’s on his third extension, had indicated to the federal government that he doesn’t need to proceed within the submit after the time period ends on September 30.
Venugopal, 91, changed Rohatgi as India’s fifteenth AG for 3 years in July 2017. When his time period resulted in 2020, Venugopal requested him to be relieved, citing his rising age. However, the federal government requested him to proceed within the submit and continued to increase his time period.
The son of former Delhi High Court decide Justice Awadh Bihari Rohatgi, Mukul Rohatgi was appointed further solicitor basic in 1999, when the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister. He later represented the Gujarat authorities within the 2002 riots circumstances within the Supreme Court and was appointed AG in 2014 after the Narendra Modi authorities took over.
The checklist of senior advocates’ purchasers additionally consists of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who confronted allegations of unlawful mining allotments; In a case involving NDTV promoters Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI); and Republic TV founder Arnab Goswami after his arrest by Maharashtra Police.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
