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Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi is new Attorney General 6/12/2014 10:42:54 PM New Delhi, June 12: Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi was today appointed as the new Attorney General (AG) and will have a tenure of three years. The Law Ministry issued a formal notification appointing him as the top law officer of the NDA government. The government has already appointed Ranjit Kumar as the Solicitor General. Six Additional Solicitors General have also been appointed. Rohatgi took over from G E Vahanvati as the 14th AG of the country. Vahanvati had resigned following a change of the government at the Centre. It is a convention that law officers step down after the change of government. Rohatgi had recently said his top priority as Attorney General would be to "streamline litigations in the Supreme Court."   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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