Additional Solicitor General of India abbreviated as Addl. SGI is a law officer of India who assists the Solicitor-General and the Attorney-General. Addl. SGI is governed by Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987.[1]

List of incumbent Additional Solicitor Generals

The list of incumbent Law Officers (i.e. AGI, SGI, Addl. SGIs) as of 2 September 2022 are as follows:[2]

List of incumbent Addl. SGIs
# Additional Solicitor Generals Appointment Term Length
1 Vikramjit Banerjee Supreme Court 5 March 2018 5 years, 299 days
2 Madhavi Goradia Diwan 18 December 2018 5 years, 11 days
3 K.M. Nataraj 14 January 2019 4 years, 349 days
4 Sanjay Jain 17 January 2019 4 years, 346 days
5 Balbir Singh 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
6 Suryaprakash V. Raju 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
7 N. Venkataraman 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
8 Jayant K. Sud 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
9 Aishwarya Bhati 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
10 Vacant N/A N/A
11 Vacant N/A N/A
12 Rajdeepak Rastogi Rajasthan High Court 28 July 2014 9 years, 154 days
13 Satya Pal Jain Punjab & Haryana High Court 8 April 2015 8 years, 265 days
14 Devang Girish Vyas (Additional Charge) Bombay High Court 9 July 2014[3] 9 years, 173 days
15 Shashi Prakash Singh Allahabad High Court 9 February 2018 5 years, 323 days
16 Nargund N. B. Karnataka High Court 18 December 2019 4 years, 11 days
17 T. Surya Karan Reddy Southern Zone 18 December 2019 4 years, 11 days
18 R. Sankaranaryanan Madras High Court 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
19 Asok Kumar Chakrabarti Calcutta High Court 9 July 2022 1 year, 173 days
20 Devang Girish Vyas Gujarat High Court 30 June 2020 3 years, 182 days
21 Chetan Sharma Delhi High Court 1 July 2020 3 years, 181 days
22 Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh Patna High Court 1 July 2020 3 years, 181 days

Duties

Duties of Solicitor General of India and other law officers are laid out in Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987:[1]

  • to give advice to the Government of India upon such legal matters, and to perform such other duties of a legal character, as may from time to time, be referred or assigned to him by the Government of India.
  • to appear, whenever required, in the Supreme Court or in any High Court on behalf of the Government of India in cases (including suits, writ petitions, appeal and other proceedings) in which the Government of India is concerned as a party or is otherwise interested;
  • to represent the Government of India in any reference made by the President to the Supreme Court under Article 143 of the Constitution; and
  • to discharge such other functions as are conferred on a Law Officer by or under the Constitution or any other Law for the time being in force.

Restrictions of private practice

As law officers represent government of India, there are certain restrictions which are put on their private practice. A law officer is not allowed to:

  • hold briefs in any court for any party except the Government of India or the government of a State or any University, Government School or College, local authority, Public Service Commission, Port Trust, Port Commissioners, Government aided or Government managed hospitals, a Government company, any Corporation owned or controlled by the State, any body or institution in which the Government has a preponderating interest;
  • advise any party against the Government of India or a Public Sector Undertaking, or in cases in which he is likely to be called upon to advise, or appear for, the Government of India or a Public Sector Undertaking;
  • defend an accused person in a criminal prosecution, without the permission of the Government of India; or
  • accept appointment to any office in any company or corporation without the permission of the Government of India;
  • advise any Ministry or Department of Government of India or any statutory organization or any Public Sector Undertaking unless the proposal or a reference in this regard is received through the Ministry of Law and Justice, Department of Legal Affairs.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Law Officers (Conditions of Service) Rules, 1987" (PDF). Gazette of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "List of Law Officers (As on 02.09.2022)". Ministry of Law and Justice.
  3. ↑ https://www.news18.com/news/india/anil-singh-appointed-additional-solicitor-general-western-zone-700966.html
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