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Advocate Tushar Mehta becomes Solicitor General of India
Senior advocate Tushar Mehta has been appointed as the new Solicitor General of India on October 10, 2018.
Tushar Mehta is currently an Additional Solicitor General. Tushar Mehta will replace this post in place of Ranjit Kumar. Ranjit Kumar resigned from this post in December 2017.
Tushar Mehta was nominated for the Solicitor General of India by the Cabinet's Appointment Committee. Tushar Mehta, who has been vacant for almost 11 months, will be responsible for this post. Tushar Mehta is the Additional Solicitor General of India from the year 2014. Mehta has kept the Central Government's stand in the Information Act Section 66A.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Tushar Mehta as the in charge of the office till 30 June 2020 till further orders.
Solicitor General is the General Public Processor. Solicitor General is the second largest law officer of the Central Government.
He acts as an Assistant General of Attorney (Attorney General), while the Additional Solicitor General assists the Solicitor General.
The solicitor general is the legal representative who pays the government in court and in legal matters. India's first solicitor general, CK They were.
The Attorney General is the Chief Legal Advisor of the Government and the Chief Counsel of the Government in the Supreme Court. The Attorney General is appointed by the President under Article 76 (1) of the Constitution.
