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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 edit

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	6 years, 31 days
2	Madhavi Goradia Diwan		18 December 2018	5 years, 109 days
3	K.M. Nataraj		14 January 2019	5 years, 82 days
4	Sanjay Jain		17 January 2019	5 years, 79 days
5	Balbir Singh		30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
6	Suryaprakash V. Raju		30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
7	N. Venkataraman		30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
8	Jayant K. Sud		30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
9	Aishwarya Bhati		30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
10	Vacant		N/A	N/A
11	Vacant		N/A	N/A
12	Rajdeepak Rastogi	Rajasthan High Court	28 July 2014	9 years, 252 days
13	Satya Pal Jain	Punjab & Haryana High Court	8 April 2015	8 years, 363 days
14	Devang Girish Vyas (Additional Charge)	Bombay High Court	9 July 2014^[3]	9 years, 271 days
15	Shashi Prakash Singh	Allahabad High Court	9 February 2018	6 years, 56 days
16	Nargund N. B.	Karnataka High Court	18 December 2019	4 years, 109 days
17	T. Surya Karan Reddy	Southern Zone	18 December 2019	4 years, 109 days
18	R. Sankaranaryanan	Madras High Court	30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
19	Asok Kumar Chakrabarti	Calcutta High Court	9 July 2022	1 year, 271 days
20	Devang Girish Vyas	Gujarat High Court	30 June 2020	3 years, 280 days
21	Chetan Sharma	Delhi High Court	1 July 2020	3 years, 279 days
22	Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh	Patna High Court	1 July 2020	3 years, 279 days

Duties edit

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 edit

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 edit

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