Senior Lawyer Mukul Rohatgi is Set to Take Over as Attorney General for India Again
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 17th September. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is set to return as India’s attorney general on October 1, according to sources familiar with the situation.
From June 2014 to June 2017, Rohatgi served as the country’s attorney general.
On June 29, the incumbent, K K Venugopal, 91, was re-appointed as the country’s top law officer for three months.
He was unwilling to continue in the position for “personal reasons,” but he agreed to the government’s request, according to Law Ministry officials. In July 2017, Venugopal took over as Attorney General, succeeding Rohatgi.
The attorney general usually serves a three-year term.
When Venugopal’s first term as Attorney General came to an end in 2020, he asked the government to relieve him of his duties due to his age.
He later agreed to a one-year extension because the government wanted him to continue due to the high-profile cases he was handling and his extensive experience at the Bar.
Rohatgi, a veteran lawyer, has appeared in several high-profile cases before the Supreme Court and high courts throughout the country.
He represented the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Supreme Court, which was hearing a petition from Zakia Jafri regarding the Gujarat riots in 2002. Jafri, the wife of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri, who was killed during the violence at Ahmedabad’s Gulberg Society on February 28, 2002, had challenged the SIT’s clean chit to 64 people, including Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi at the time.
The Supreme Court upheld the SIT’s acquittal of Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots in June of this year.
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