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The Solicitor General for India is subordinate to the Attorney General of India, who is the Indian government's chief legal

Law

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advisor, and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India...

. The Solicitor General for India is the second law officer of the country, assists the Attorney General, and is himself assisted by several Additional Solicitors General of India. Like the Attorney General of India, the Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General advice the Government and appear on behalf of the Union of India in terms of the Law Officers (Terms and Conditions) Rules, 1972. However, unlike the post of Attorney General of India, which is a Constitutional post under Article 76 of the Constitution of India, the posts of the Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General are merely statutory.

Solicitors and Additional Solicitors General of India (past and present)

The former Solicitors General for India were as follows: ;
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! Solicitor General !! Term
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| C.K.Daphtary || 28.01.1950 – 01.03.1963
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| H.N. Sanyal || 02.03.1963 – 09.09.1964
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| S.V. Gupta || 10.09.1964 – 16.09.1967
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| Niren De || 30.09.1967 – 30.10.1968
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| Jagadish Swarup || 05.06.1969 – 04.06.1972
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| L.N. Sinha

L.N. Sinha

Lal Narayan Sinha was a lawyer who was the Attorney General of India during the Prime Ministership of Indira Gandhi. Born in the village of Mussi , he is regarded for his legal skills because of defending Emergency in India. He was also the Solicitor General of India from 17 July 1972 until 5...

|| 17.07.1972 – 05.04.1977
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| S.N. Kacker || 05.04.1977 – 02.08.1979
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| Soli Sorabjee

Soli Sorabjee

Soli Jehangir Sorabjee is an Indian jurist.-Biography:Soli Sorabjee was born on March 9, 1930 in Bombay, and after an education at Government Law College, Bombay, was admitted to the bar in 1953...

|| 09.08.1979 – 25.01.1980
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| K. Parasaran

K. Parasaran

Shri K. Parasaran is an Indian lawyer. He was former Attorney General of India, under Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. Parasaran was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the year 2003 and Padma Vibhushan in the year 2011.-References:*...

|| 06.03.1980 – 08.08.1983
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| Milon K. Banerji

Milon K. Banerji

Milon Kumar Banerji was an Indian jurist who was Attorney General of India from 1992 to 1996 and again from 2004 to 2009. He was also Solicitor General from 1986 to 1989. He died on July 20, 2010 after a long illness, having suffered a stroke in December 2009. He was 82.-References:...

|| 04.04.1986 – 03.04.1989
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| Ashok Desai

Ashok Desai

Ashok H. Desai was the Attorney General of India from July 1996 to 1998. Previously, he was the Solicitor General of India from December 1989 to December 1990. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award and the Law Luminary Award in 2001.Ashok H...

|| 18.12.1989 – 02.12.1990
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| A.D. Giri || 04.12.1990 – 01.12.1991
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| Dipankar P. Gupta || 09.04.1992 – 10.04.1997
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| T.R.Andhyarujina || 11.04.1997 – 04.04.1998
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| Nitte Santhosh Hegde

Nitte Santhosh Hegde

Nitte Santosh Hegde is a former justice of the Supreme Court Of India, former Solicitor General of India and was Lokayukta for Karnataka State of India from 2006-2011.-Early life:...

|| 10.04.1998 – 07.01.1999
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| Harish Salve

Harish Salve

Harish Salve is a lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of India from November 1, 1999 to November 3, 2002. He succeeded Santosh Hegde, after the latter was appointed a justice to the Supreme Court of India. Salve was a well-known lawyer and practiced, especially, constitutional law,...

|| 01.11.1999 - 03.11.2002
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| Kirit N Raval || 04.11.2002 - 19.04.2004
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| G. E. Vahanvati || 20.04.2004 - 07.06.2009
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| Gopal Subramaniam

Gopal Subramaniam

Gopal Subramaniam is an Indian lawyer, who was appointed as the Solicitor General of India, the second most important law officer of the country after the attorney general, in 2009 at the age of 51.-Resignation of Gopal Subramanium:...

|| 15.06.2009 - 14.7.2011
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| Rohinton Nariman || 23.7.2011 -
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Additional Solicitors General of India
! Term
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| Fali S. Nariman
| May 1972- June 1975
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|N. Santosh Hegde
| November 1989 - October 1990
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| Kuldip Singh
| August 1987 - December 1988
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| Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley is a prominent Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party , which is currently the largest Opposition party in India...

|1989-1990
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|Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud is a sitting judge of the Bombay High Court and an eminent jurist in India.- Introduction :Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud is the son of Justice Y. V. Chandrachud, the longest serving Chief Justice of India. Born on 11 November 1959, he graduated from St....

Indira Jaising

Indira Jaising is a leftist Indian lawyer. She went to school in Mumbai and graduated in Bangalore, before getting her degree in law in 1962. Jaising became the second woman to be designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Bombay in 1986 .She became the first woman to be appointed...

Chennai

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| July 2009 - Incumbent
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| Farook M Razack (Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

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| July 2009 - Incumbent
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| Darius J Khambatta (Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

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| July 2009 - Incumbent
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| Ashok Nigam (Allahabad

Allahabad

Allahabad , or Settled by God in Persian, is a major city of India and is one of the main holy cities of Hinduism. It was renamed by the Mughals from the ancient name of Prayaga , and is by some accounts the second-oldest city in India. It is located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh,...

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| July 2009 - Incumbent
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| Amarjit Singh Chandiok (Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

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| July 2009 - Incumbent
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| Vivek K. Tankha
| August 2009 - Incumbent
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| Bishwajit Bhattacharya
| November 2009 - Incumbent
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