Know who is Mukul Rohatgi

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, who is going to start his second innings as the Attorney General of the country for the second time, will now be the 16th AG after the 14th.

This will be Rohatgi's second term as AG after his first term between June 2014 and June 2017.

Actually, the tenure of the present AG Venugopal is being completed on 30 September.

At the end of June this year, the tenure of AG Venugopal was extended by three months or "till further orders".

This is now going to end on 30 September.

Venugopal was appointed as Attorney General on July 1, 2017 for a three-year term, which was later extended twice by one year.

  • On August 17, 1955, Mukul Rohatgi, son of Avadh Bihari Rohatgi, who became a senior advocate and later a judge of the Delhi High Court, was born in Mumbai.

  • School college education took place in Delhi and Mumbai only

  • Completed Commerce Honors from Delhi University

  •  Then after obtaining a bachelor of law degree from the prestigious Government Law College in Mumbai, Mukul was registered as a lawyer in the Delhi Bar Council in 1978.

  • Fakir Mohan University of Odisha honored him with Doctorate in Law in 2011.

  • In 2016, Amity University of UP honored him with the degree of LLD Doctor of Law. 

  •  In 2008, during the UPA government, Rohatgi was honored with the National Law Day Award by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. 

  •  As the junior of the famous lawyer of that era, Yogesh Kumar started learning the finer tricks of the law and justice process as a junior.

  •  Mukul Rohatgi was made Senior Advocate from Delhi High Court in 1993 at the age of 39.

  • Mukul Rohatgi, who came from Mumbai to Delhi, due to his sharp reasoning ability and understanding of the finer tricks of law, was appointed as Additional Solicitor General in 1999 during the Vajpayee government. 

  • Then in 2014, when the Modi government came, Law Minister Arun Jaitley made up his mind to appoint his old friend and veteran lawyer Mukul Rohatgi as Attorney General.

  • Rohatgi served as the 14th Attorney General from 19 June 2014 to 18 June 2017

  • Rohatgi took charge from 13th Attorney General Ghulam Vahanvati in 2014.

  • KK Venugopal joins Rohatgi as 15th Attorney General on completion of first term

  • It is a coincidence that Rohatgi will take charge from Venugopal as the 16th Attorney General. 

  • During his long years of advocacy, Mukul Rohatgi fought innumerable major cases.

  • In the famous and well-known cases, in the cases related to the Gujarat riots, the Special Investigation Team formed by the Supreme Court i.e. lobbied on behalf of the SIT

  • He advocated for Bombay High Court Aryan in Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan's drugs case

  • Advocated the Central Government as Attorney General in the National Judicial Appointments Commission i.e. NJAC case

  • Apart from this, in the state legislative assemblies including Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, where constitutional crisis came, Mukul Rohatgi has always advocated for the central or state governments.

  •  In the last several years, the presence of Mukul Rohatgi has been mandatory in almost all the big and popular cases in the Supreme Court.  

  • As a veteran law expert and Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi has led the Indian team in many international legal conferences.

  • In 2006, the Supreme Court Chief Justice sent Rohatgi as a member of the Indian delegation to the Indo British Legal Forum held in Scotland, where he presented a research paper on the impact of environmental laws on human rights, which was widely discussed. 

  • Rohatgi is also fond of expensive and luxury cars.

  • They also have Bentley and BMW cars

  • Apart from this, Rohatgi is fond of reading and traveling.

  • Rohatgi, who charges lakhs of rupees for a muscle, has said many times that he is fond of traveling around the world.