New Delhi: Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been appointed the Attorney General of India. President Droupadi Murmu issued the notification of his appointment. Ramani will take over as the country’s top legal officer on October 1.
Former Law Commission member, Venkataramani was most recently in the news after being appointed the receiver and amicus for the homebuyers in the Amrapali housing case in the Supreme Court. Venkataramani enrolled in the Bar in July 1977 with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and joined the chambers of P P Rao, senior advocate at THE Supreme Court, in 1979. He then set up an independent practice at the Supreme Court in 1982.
He was designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court of India in 1997. He was appointed as a member of the Law Commission of India in 2010 and again for another term in 2013, India Today reported.
Venkataramani has completed 42 years of practice in the Supreme Court. He has also been a special senior counsel for various departments of the Government of India in the Supreme Court and high courts between 2004 and 2010.
He is also an internationally known jurist. He has served as a law member in the ‘Expert Group on Welfare Legislations’ set up by the Planning Commission of India in the year 1990 and was a Member of the South Asian Task Force on Judiciary, consisting of Members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Nations to submit reports on the conditions of the judiciary.
He is also associated with the International Working Group engaged in drafting an Instrument on the Right to Food following an International Conference held in Berlin in May 2002. He was also invited to be involved in the Nepalese Constitution drafting and experience-sharing exercise (2008).
He has several publications to his credit, including books on ‘Land Reforms’ (co-author: 1975), ‘Judgements of Justice O Chinnappa Reddy’ (Former Judge of the Supreme Court) published by the International Institute of Human Rights Society (1995), Volume on ‘Torts’ in the series of Halsbury’s Laws of India, and Restatement of Indian Law (Public Interest Litigation).
