Mumbai, June 17
Maharashtra Advocate-General Goolam Vahanvati will be the new Solicitor-General of India, it was announced today.
A notice to this effect was issued today by the Union Law and Justice Ministry, Bombay High Court sources said.
Mr Vahanvati was appointed on December 9, 1999, by the Congress-NCP Democratic Front government to represent the state of Maharashtra in important matters. He has represented the state in several important cases.
New Delhi: The UPA Government has appointed senior advocate B. Dutta as Additional Solicitor-General (ASG) to assist it in taking up legal matters in the Supreme Court, it was officially announced here today.
His appointment has been made in view of all six ASGs appointed by the NDA government resigning from their posts after change of government.
This would be Mr Dutta's third stint as ASG. He had earlier held the post twice during the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1985 and again in 1987.
Dutta, who started his career as a lawyer in the Delhi High Court in 1960, had also been a standing counsel of the Union Government in the high court from 1972 and in the Supreme Court from 1977.
He had also represented the Union Government before the Jain commission that probed the conspiracy aspect of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
