New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government yesterday appointed senior Supreme Court counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for the Gujarat government in several 2002 post-Godhra riot-related cases, as attorney general of India.
He succeeds G E Vahanvati who resigned following the rout of the Congress-led UPA in the 2014 general election.
A versatile lawyer who has appeared in a large number of cases representing various state governments, corporate houses and individual litigants in the Supreme Court, Rohatgi said shortly after his appointment that his priority is to streamline the working of the central agency that files appeals in the Supreme Court on behalf of the central government.
He said he would endeavour to reduce the time in the filing of appeals by the government.
Rohatgi said he would try and reduce the filing of frivolous appeals or appeals involving recovery of petty amounts by the government.
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