All Cases To Be Marked To Attorney General To Prioritise His Court Appearance: Law Ministry

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New Delhi: The Ministry of Law and Justice has issued a notification stating that all cases will first be marked to the Attorney General on a daily basis so that he can decide which ones require his personal appearance in court. The step has been taken to streamline the distribution of cases among the government law officers in the Supreme Court, India Today reported.

“In respect of cases before the Supreme Court, the list of cases on daily basis will first be placed before the Attorney General for India for the purpose of his selecting the matters in which he considers his appearance to be necessary. The list of cases will thereafter be placed before the Solicitor General of lndia, who will mark the matters to himself, to the Additional Solicitors General of lndia to appear alone or with Attorney General for lndia / Solicitor General of lndia and to the counsel from Group ‘A’, B’ and ‘C’ Panel,” the office order stated.

Notably, the order comes ahead of senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi’s likely return as Attorney General for India from October 1, after current Attorney General KK Venugopal completes his extended term on September 30.

The Law Ministry’s order also laid down the procedures that need to be followed for other state high courts: “With regard to cases filed in High Courts of Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Karnataka, the matters would be allocated by the in-charge in consultation with the Additional Solicitor General.”