Mukul Rohatgi
| Mukul Rohatgi | |
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| Attorney General for India | |
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Assumed office 19 June 2014 |
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| Appointed by |
Pranab Mukherjee (President of India) |
| Preceded by | Goolam Essaji Vahanvati |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Residence | New Delhi |
| Alma mater | Government Law College, Mumbai |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Mukul Rohatgi is a designated senior counsel, and the 14th and current Attorney General for India. He was appointed Attorney General of India with effect from 19 June 2014 and shall have a tenure of 3 years. He is a senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India. He has also served earlier as Additional Solicitor General of India.
Rohatgi, son of former Delhi High Court judge Justice Awadh Behari Rohatgi, has represented Gujarat government in the Supreme Court in the 2002 Gujarat riots and fake encounter death cases, including the Best Bakery and Zahira Sheikh cases.
Rohatagi completed his studies of law from Government Law College, Mumbai.
After graduating in law, he started practice under Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal, who later became 36th Chief Justice of India. He started working with him in the High Court and later started his own legal practice. He was designated as a senior counsel by the Delhi High Court on 3 June 1993. In 1999, he was appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India for the Vajpayee government, an appointment that saw him shift base to the Supreme Court.
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