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File photo of Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta. (photo: PTI)
Mehta was appointed Solicitor General on 10 October 2018 and has since been granted two extensions.
Senior defender Tushar Mehta was reappointed as the Solicitor General of India on Friday for a three-year term. Mehta was appointed Solicitor General on October 10, 2018 and has since been granted two extensions.
According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training, six additional Solicitors General of the Supreme Court have been reappointed for three-year terms, in addition to Mehta. Six APAs were re-appointed to the Supreme Court, Vikramjeet Banerjee, K.P. Nataraj, Balbir Singh, SV Raju, N.
Additional lawyers General Madhavi Goradia Devan and Sanjay Jain, whose terms of office expired on Friday, are not on the list of reappointed law officers. Additional Attorney General Jayant K Sood, whose term expired on Thursday, also did not appear on the list.
Additional Advocates General Chetan Sharma to the Delhi High Court, Satya Pal Jain to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Devang Girish Vyas to the Gujarat High Court and Krishna Nandan Singh to the Patna High Court have also been reappointed for three years.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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