Additional Solicitor General of India

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 Law Officers

The list of incumbent Law Officers (i.e. AGI, SGI, Addl. SGIs) as of 10 September 2024 are as follows:^[2][3]

List of Law Officers
Attorney General of India		Appointment	Term Length
R. Venkataramani		1 October 2022	2 years, 195 days
Solicitor General of India		Appointment	Term Length
Tushar Mehta		10 October 2018	6 years, 186 days
Additional Solicitor General of India		Appointment	Term Length
Vikramjit Banerjee	Supreme Court	5 March 2018	7 years, 40 days
K.M. Nataraj		14 January 2019	6 years, 90 days
Suryaprakash V. Raju		30 June 2020	4 years, 288 days
N. Venkataraman		30 June 2020	4 years, 288 days
Aishwarya Bhati		30 June 2020	4 years, 288 days
S. Dwarkanath		10 September 2024	216 days
Archana Pathak Dave		10 September 2024	216 days
Satya Darshi Sanjay		10 September 2024	216 days
Brijender Chahar		10 September 2024	216 days
Rajkumar Bhaskar Thakare		10 September 2024	216 days
Raghavendra P Shankar		10 September 2024	216 days
Rajdeepak Rastogi	Rajasthan HC	28 July 2014	10 years, 260 days
Satya Pal Jain	Punjab & Haryana HC	8 April 2015	10 years, 6 days
Anil Chandrabali Singh	Bombay HC	9 July 2017	7 years, 279 days
Shashi Prakash Singh	Allahabad HC	9 February 2018	7 years, 64 days
K. Arvind Kamath	Karnataka HC	17 October 2023	1 year, 179 days
T. Surya Karan Reddy	Southern Zone	18 December 2019	5 years, 117 days
R. Sankaranaryanan	Madras HC	30 June 2020	4 years, 288 days
Ashok Kumar Chakraborty	Calcutta HC	9 July 2022	2 years, 279 days
Devang Girish Vyas	Gujarat HC	30 June 2020	4 years, 288 days
Chetan Sharma	Delhi HC	1 July 2020	4 years, 287 days
Dr. Krishna Nandan Singh	Patna HC	1 July 2020	4 years, 287 days

Duties

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

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]