India gets new Attorney General - Finally
GOVERNMENT has officially announced the appointment of Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi as the new Attorney General for India for a period of three years from the date on which he enters upon his office. There were stories doing the rounds that a senior advocate and a former Law minister had written to the Prime Minister against the appointment of Rohtagi, but finally his name was cleared.
The Attorney General is the highest Law officer of the Government of India.
A Supreme Court Lawyer writes about Rohatgi, "Rohatgi in argument is like watching a finely tuned performance. He possesses a quality that's elusive even in most actors, and even more so among lawyers presence. Legends, some apocryphal, most not, tell of briefing advocates who've told him no more than three words just as he was about to enter the courtroom from which he would produce a rich and complex saga of woe that results in notice and stay of the judgment of the high court."