By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: Senior suggest Okay Okay Venugopal might get a recent time period as Legal professional Common for India, assets within the govt stated on Tuesday.
A last determination could be taken in an afternoon or two.
Venugopal’s present 12 months tem ends on June 30.
The legal professional common generally has a tenure of 3 years.
When Venugopal’s first time period as AG was once to finish in 2020, he had asked the federal government to provide him a one-year tenure preserving in thoughts his complex age.
He’s 91.
Ultimate yr too, Venugopal was once reappointed for 12 months.
In view of the high-profile circumstances Venugopal is dealing with within the Superb Court docket and his enjoy on the Bar, the federal government might reappoint him once more.
There was once no phrase but at the length for which he may well be reappointed to the constitutional publish.
The legislation ministry has knowledgeable the federal government that his time period ends on June 30 and the publish must be crammed.
He first took over because the legal professional common, the highest legislation officer of the Union govt, on July 1, 2017, succeeding Mukul Rohatgi.