Mann (retd), once of the Punjab and Haryana HC.Īnother additional advocate general, Sanjay Mittal, is a relative of Justice S.K. He is a relative of retired Justice T.P.S. They include Sandeep Singh Mann, who has been chosen as an additional advocate general.
The other members included the home secretary and the legal remembrancer.īut just like most years, the list is dominated by relatives of judges, politicians and other VIPs.Īlso read: Justice Muralidhar is 2nd senior-most in Punjab & Haryana HC but gets only tax mattersĪ number of those on the list are related to retired judges. The final selection was done by a three-member committee headed by the advocate general. The government received 1,700 applications for these 90 positions. For the post of assistant AG, the criteria was fixed at 5 lakh a year. It had also fixed a minimum criteria for the selection - for additional advocate general, a lawyer had to have a minimum income of Rs 12 lakh a year, while for a deputy AG’s post, a lawyer should have a minimum income of Rs 8 lakh a year. The government, for the first time, even issued an advertisement seeking eligible candidates for these 90 law officer posts. The BJP-JJP coalition government led by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had after coming to power in October last year announced that unlike earlier, these appointments would be now done through a transparent and open selection process. A deputy AG will get Rs 1.28 lakh a month while the salary of an assistant AG, the lowest in the ranks, is now Rs 88,400 a month.Īppointments to the office of the advocate general in both Punjab and Haryana are traditionally carried out in an arbitrary, pick and choose fashion with the list usually being dominated by relatives of politicians, judges and VIPs, depending on the political party in power. An additional advocate general will now get a salary of Rs 1.8 lakh along with a retainership of Rs 25,000 per month. Until 2017, a deputy advocate general was being paid Rs 80,000 a month while an additional advocate general was paid Rs 1 lakh.įor these fresh appointments, however, a new and much higher salary scale has been fixed. The salaries and retainership of these law offices has also increased several fold over the last two years. Kaushik has now been brought back to the fold by the BJP-JJP government.Īlso read: Scindia effect in Haryana - Deepender Hooda pips hot favourite Kumari Selja for RS seat The 15-year-old youth was stabbed to death by a mob on a train, with the accused allegedly taunting him for being Muslim. Besides these, a host of law officers have been chosen to represent various boards and corporations of the government.Īmong those chosen to represent various boards and corporations of the state government is advocate Navin Kaushik who had in 2017 resigned as additional advocate general after a court in Faridabad recommended action against him for allegedly helping the accused in Junaid Khan killing.
The list includes names of 30 additional advocate generals, 30 deputy advocate generals and 30 assistant advocate generals. She has been selected as a deputy advocate general.ĭeepshikha Chauhan, daughter of another HC judge, Jitendra Chauhan, has been appointed as an assistant advocate general while Aman Bahri, the brother of Justice Ritu Bahri of the high court, has been picked as an additional advocate general. They include Trishanjali Sharma, daughter of Justice Rajiv Sharma, one of the senior-most judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Other relatives of politicians include Rajat Gautam, the son of the estranged JJP MLA from Narnaund, Ram Kumar Gautam, who has been selected as deputy advocate general.Ī number of those selected are also related to judges, both sitting and retired. Bansuri has been appointed an additional advocate general, a post that has also been accorded to Ambika Sood, the wife of the Chandigarh BJP chief Varun Sood. It includes Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former external affairs minister, the late Sushma Swaraj. The list of 90 law officers selected by the advocate general was released Wednesday. Chandigarh: The Manohar Lal Khattar-led Haryana government had promised an “open and transparent” process for the appointment of the state’s law officers, even issuing an advertisement in 2019 calling for eligible candidates, but those selected are the usual suspects - close relatives of judges, politicians and other VIPs.
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