Karnataka high court senior advocate Prabhuling Navadgi said he yesterday accepted his appointment to become additional solicitor general (ASG), taking up a post created for the first time ever in the state.
Navadgi will represent the union government before the Karnataka high court and its circuit benches at Hubli-Dharwad and Gulbarga, for three years beginning 8 April.
Navadgi had represented the government of Karnataka in his capacity as additional advocate general for Karnataka in 2011 and, he told Legally India, where he was governed by the Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules 1987.
The 1987 rules were created to govern only the Attorney General of India, the Solicitor General of India and additional solicitors general, but governed the additional advocate general post in Karanataka since there was no ASG post created in the state until now.
He had been designated as a senior advocate in July 2014, as reported by Legally India.
Navadgi said that there were two posts of ASG for the four southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala until now. Both posts had been created in Tamil Nadu. He said that Mr G Rajagopalan, who was appointed as ASG in Tamil Nadu in August 2014, was transferred to Karnataka for “better coordination and implementation” of government litigation.
The new post was created by the law ministry by a 10 December notification which also created an ASG post each in the states of Punjab & Haryana, Patna, Jharkhand and Gujarat.
For Karnataka and its circuit benches, Jayaraj Bukka was appointed as the Assistant Solicitor General of India for three years in October 2014, for Punjab & Haryana Chetan Mittal took the same post in August 2014, for Jharkhand it was Rajiv Sinha in November 2014, for Gujarat it was Devang Vyas in June 2014 and for Chhattisgarh it was Narendra Kumar Vyas in September 2014.
The notification stated that this move was taken to
- “strengthen the litigation machinery to represent the Union of India (UOI) as a whole”
- “conduct of litigation on behalf of [Union of India] efficiently and effectively”
- “facilitate transaction of business in accordance with procedures and thus enable assigning of functions to legally trained persons” resulting in “greater accountability of Government Departments to curb frivolous litigation”; and
- “boost the morale of Government Department in following the rule of law and defending government policies and preventing high revenue pilferages”
Mukul Rohatgi, who was appointed the attorney general of India on 19 June 2014, is head of the union government’s legal team until 19 June 2017. After these five appointments the central government team will have 40 law officers which includes 12 ASG and 21 assistant solicitor generals appointed in various states last year.
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Thank you for your comment. That the post of ASG (additional solicitor general) was created for the first time in the state in December 2014, is contained in this notification, which we've linked to in the story: pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=113070
The post of assistant solicitor general (for which the abbrevation 'asst solicitor general' is used instead of ASG) have been existing and were taken up by justice Kumar and Basavraj: www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/court-tells-state-to-improve-connectivity-to-airport/article1276787.ece
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Since the intials of both posts are the same, confusion/error could have led to news stories such as these: www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/aai-to-assess-traffic-projections-at-bial/article1263476.ece
Best wishes,
Prachi
There is no post called Assistant AG. Only Additional AG. You are making it sound like a new development whereas it has been in existence for many decades.
lawmin.nic.in/la/asg.htm
I said there is no post called Asst. AG (Assistant Advocate General). You have posted a link to a site that talks of Asst. SOLICITOR General.
ARE YOU DUMB???
1. Assistant AG? A = attorney? Assistant attorney general, yes, doesn't look like there is any post like that. Or a post called Additional attorney general.
2. ASG = Additional solicitor general - a post which existed in other states for decades but was created for the first time in Karnataka and four other states on 10 December 2014, as seen here: pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=113070
3. Asst solicitor general = assistant solicitor general = not ASG. This post has also been around for decades, in most states, including Karnataka. (see lawmin.nic.in/la/asg.pdf)
4. Justice Kumar and Basavraj were not ASG. They were assistant solicitors general.
5. Mr Navadgi is the first ASG in Karnataka.
Best wishes,
Prachi
P, your GK on law is mind bogglingly pathetic.
Attorney General , only 1 post, Constitutional
Advocate General, ditto
Solicitor General, ditto
There are also Additional SGs and Assistant SGs appointed by the Central Govt
There are also Addl. Advocate Generals appointed by State Govts.
No 'Asst' Attorney General or Asst. Advocate General
the story in itself, meanwhile, is correct entirely and I hope my clarificatory comments would take away the confusion anyone else might have still
Best wishes,
Prachi.
Coherence? Is that the only reply you could come up with?
Look at your post above where you say that ASG is "a post which existed in other states for decades but was created for the first time in Karnataka". This makes it look like it is a state government position.
It's not. ASGs are lawyers for the Union (they can accept state / pvt briefs if no conflict). The Central Govt stations the 6-10 ASGs at cities / states where there is lot of pending litigation. Its dynamic and totally based on the changing needs of the Central Govt.
By making posts showing your ignorance of these things your call into question the few other things that you 'write' on
I was neither trying to "come up with" retorts for you, nor trying to re-write the story in the comments (Hence, perhaps, used a more colloquial way of saying that ASGs exist in various states to represent the centre before high courts of those states).
I began with genuinely treating your query as a query instead of a troll attempt but that should have apparently ended a while ago. No worries, this is my last reply to you on this thread. Troll all you want after this :)
Enjoy,
Prachi
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