One of the highest paid lawyers in the Supreme Court, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, will be the 14th Attorney-General of India to succeed Gulam Vahanvati.
Mr. Rohatgi said his top priority as the AG would be to “streamline litigation in the Supreme Court”.
“I will see that the superior courts are not flooded with frivolous and petty litigation,” he said. He would make all efforts to check that the government did not involve itself in inter-ministerial litigation.
Mr. Rohatgi has represented the Gujarat government in the Supreme Court in many cases on the 2002 Gujarat riots and fake encounter. These include the Best Bakery and Zahira Sheikh cases.
