Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded it is in the public interest to appoint him (David Weiss) as Special Counsel," said Attorney General Merrick Gerland.
Mukul Rohatgi was succeeded by Venugopal, who was appointed to the post in July 2017.
KK Venugopal was not willing to continue in the constitutional post due to "personal reasons". But following a request by the central government, he has agreed to continue as the top law officer of the Union of India for three more months.
In January this year, the AG moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court judgment acquitting a person under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act, after he pressed a girl's breast over the dress stating there was no skin-to-skin contact.
Former Attorney General and Constitutional law expert Soli Sorabjee succumbed to Covid 19 on Friday morning.
Attorney General K.K Venugopal said that stringent safeguards were already in place in the KYC verification guidelines of the purchaser of electoral bonds.
"Do not let transparency kill the electoral bond scheme," said K.K. Venugopal. The government is in favour of maintaining the anonymity of purchaser and the redeemer of electoral bonds.
A bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan asked the Attorney General to assist the bench and posted the matter on April 27.
Grewal, became the nation's first Sikh state attorney general after the Senate approved his nomination with a vote of 29-0.
The violence in Charlottesville in which a suspected white supremacist rammed a car on a crowd of protesters fits the definition of "domestic terrorism", US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said today.
Trump made the extraordinary statement about Sessions in an interview with the New York Times.
Senior advocate KK Venugopal's name has been cleared for appointment as the Attorney General for India, following the decision of Mukul Rohatgi to step down as the top law officer.
Rohatgi said he was appointed by the Narendra Modi government after it came to power in May 2014 and he has served his three-year term.
The government today told the Supreme Court that it will come out with a law to regulate marriage and divorce among Muslims if triple talaq is held invalid and unconstitutional by the court.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has advised Governor C Vidyasagar Rao to hold composite floor test in the Assembly pitting caretaker Chief Minister O Paneerselvam against AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala.
The Delhi High Court today ruled that the office of the Attorney General of India does not come under the purview of Right to Infomation Act.
Jerusalem: Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced on Sunday that he had ordered to open an initial probe amid criminal allegations against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The attorney general did not specify the nature
A “cartel” of 4-5 telecom firms having a billion subscribers making Rs 250 crore a day does is not making any investment in their network to improve services to check call drops, the government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday.
New Delhi: "Justice has prevailed for the families of those who lost their lives in the 1993 Mumbai blasts," attorney general Mukul Rohatgi said on Thursday on the Supreme Court ruling that came shortly before
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