{"id":25467793,"date":"2021-05-15T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entri.app\/blog\/?p=25467793"},"modified":"2021-05-15T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:46:35","slug":"list-of-attorney-general-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entri.app\/blog\/list-of-attorney-general-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Attorney General of India 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Attorney General for India<\/b>\u00a0is the\u00a0Indian government’s chief legal advisor.\u00a0 The\u00a0Attorney General <\/b>is the primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. The Attorney General is also known to be the advocate from government’s side. The\u00a0Attorney General for India<\/b>\u00a0are appointed by the President of India\u00a0<\/strong>on advice of\u00a0Union Cabinet\u00a0under Article 76(1) of the\u00a0Constitution. He is eligible to\u00a0 hold office during the pleasure of the President. The 15th and the current Attorney General of India\u00a0 is K. K. Venugopal. K. K. Venugopal was reappointed by Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India. He was formally appointed as with effect from 30 June 2017. In this article let us check the list of attorney general of India 2021. The article also includes the roles and responsibilties of the Attorney general of India. This is a very important topic when it comes to the Indian Polity section of the competitive examination.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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List of Attorney General of India 2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The following are the attorney generals for India since Independence. M.C Setalvad was the first attorney general of India. K.K. Venugopal is the current attorney general of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
S. No<\/td>\nName<\/td>\nTenure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nM.C. Setalvad<\/td>\n28 January 1950 \u2013 1 March 1963<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nC.K. Daftari<\/td>\n2 March 1963 \u2013 30 October 1968<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nNiren de<\/td>\n1 November 1968 \u2013 31 March 1977<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nS.V. Gupte<\/td>\n1 April 1977 \u2013 8 August 1979<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nL.N. Sinha<\/td>\n9 August 1979 \u2013 8 August 1983<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nK. Parasaran<\/td>\n9 August 1983 \u2013 8 December 1989<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nSoli Sorabjee<\/td>\n9 December 1989 \u2013 2 December 1990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nJ. Ramaswamy<\/td>\n3 December 1990 \u2013 November 23, 1992<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nMilon K. Banerji<\/td>\n21 November 1992 \u2013 8 July 1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nAshok Desai<\/td>\n9 July 1996 \u2013 6 April 1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nSoli Sorabjee<\/td>\n7 April 1998 \u2013 4 June 2004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nMilon K. Banerjee<\/td>\n5 June 2004 \u2013 7 June 2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nGoolam Essaji Vahanvati<\/td>\n8 June 2009 \u2013 11 June 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nMukul Rohatgi<\/td>\n12 June 2014 \u2013 30 June 2017<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nK.K. Venugopal<\/td>\n30 June 2017 \u2013 Till date<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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