Rohinton Nariman to be new Solicitor General

New Delhi, Jul 23 (PTI) Senior advocate Rohinton
Nariman is all set to be appointed as the new Solicitor
General of India, the second senior most law officer of the
country, in place of Gopal Subramanium, who quit recently.
Sources said that the government has decided to
appoint him as the next Solicitor General, a proposal to which
he has given his consent.
"The formal notification on his appointment will be
issued next week after the Appointments Committee of Cabinet
gives its seal of approval," they said.
55-year-old Nariman, son of an eminent jurist Fali S
Nariman, was in the race for the post after Subramanium
resigned as Solicitor General in the wake of Nariman Jr being
appointed as special counsel to represent government in a 2G
related case in the Supreme Court a fortnight ago, apparently
without his knowledge.
Nariman has been appearing in various constitutional
and corporate cases in the Supreme Court and High Courts.
He argued for Mukesh Ambani's RIL along with senior
advocate Harish Salve in the dispute over the supply and
pricing of gas from KG basin between the Ambani brothers.
Nariman was designated as a senior advocate at the age
of 37 years in 1993 when the then Chief Justice of India M N
Venkatachaliah amended the rules reducing the limit of the
minimum age of 45 years for designating a lawyer as a senior
advocate.
He joined the Bar as an advocate in 1974 after
completing his LL.B from Campus Law Centre, Delhi University,
where he was among the toppers.
He had also gone to Harvard University for further
studies. PTI RB
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