Centre set to get four new ASGs, triple talaq advocate under consideration

Those being considered for the office are advocate Madhavi Goradia Divan and senior advocates Aman Lekhi, Sandeep Sethi and Vikramjit Banerjee, sources said.

Centre set to get 4 new ASGs, triple talaq advocate under consideration

The Centre currently has five ASGs in the Supreme Court —Tushar Mehta, Maninder Singh, Pinky Anand, P S Narsimha and Atmaram Nadkarni. (Representational Image)

The Centre is set to elevate at least four more advocates as Additional Solicitors-General. Those being considered for the office are advocate Madhavi Goradia Divan and senior advocates Aman Lekhi, Sandeep Sethi and Vikramjit Banerjee, sources said.

Divan played a key role in helping the Centre firm up its stand in the instant triple talaq case in the Supreme Court. A five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court had struck down instant triple talaq by a 3-2 majority verdict.

A law writer and columnist in journals and newspapers, Divan has represented the governments of Maharashtra and Gujarat in many cases in the apex court.

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Sethi is a senior lawyer from the Delhi High Court, while Lekhi has appeared in several important cases including the coal scam cases, 2G case and Commonwealth Games scam case.

Banerjee is a postgraduate in law from Leicester University and a Chevening scholar. He writes on law, culture and religion.

The Centre currently has five ASGs in the Supreme Court —Tushar Mehta, Maninder Singh, Pinky Anand, P S Narsimha and Atmaram Nadkarni. The government does not have a Solicitor General. The post has been vacant since the resignation of Ranjit Kumar in October last year.

Ananthakrishnan G

Ananthakrishnan G. is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Indian Express. He has been in the field for over 23 years, kicking off his journalism career as a freelancer in the late nineties with bylines in The Hindu. A graduate in law, he practised in the District judiciary in Kerala for about two years before switching to journalism. His first permanent assignment was with The Press Trust of India in Delhi where he was assigned to cover the lower courts and various commissions of inquiry. He reported from the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court of India during his first stint with The Indian Express in 2005-2006. Currently, in his second stint with The Indian Express, he reports from the Supreme Court and writes on topics related to law and the administration of justice. Legal reporting is his forte though he has extensive experience in political and community reporting too, having spent a decade as Kerala state correspondent, The Times of India and The Telegraph. He is a stickler for facts and has several impactful stories to his credit. ... Read More

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