Rohinton Nariman to be new solicitor general!

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Senior advocate Rohinton Nariman is all set to be appointed as the new Solicitor General of India, the second senior most law officer of the country, in place of Gopal Subramanium, who quit recently.

Sources said that the government has decided to appoint him as the next Solicitor General, a proposal to which he has given his consent.

"The formal notification on his appointment will be issued next week after the Appointments Committee of Cabinet gives its seal of approval," they said. 55-year-old Nariman, son of an eminent jurist Fali S Nariman, was in the race for the post after Subramanium resigned as Solicitor General in the wake of Nariman Jr being appointed as special counsel to represent government in a 2G related case in the Supreme Court a fortnight ago, apparently without his knowledge.

Nariman has been appearing in various constitutional and corporate cases in the Supreme Court and high courts.

He argued for Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries [ Get Quote ] Limited, along with senior advocate Harish Salve in the dispute over the supply and pricing of gas from Krishna-Godavari basin between the Ambani brothers.

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S.C.'s SIT ON BLACKMONEY CASE: S-G on black money: Govt distances itself!

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• July 18, 2011 
• By S.S. NEGI 
• Correspondent 
• New Delhi / DC.

The Union government has distanced itself completely from the oral arguments of former Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam in the black money case if they amounted to giving any “concession” to the Supreme Court on the issue of setting up of the special investigating team to probe various aspects of the generation of unaccounted wealth.

This has come out in the review petition filed by the Centre’s law officers in consultation with the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, seeking a recall of the order or the formation of SIT under two former Supreme Court judges, while the government claimed its “sole prerogative” on the issue bracketed by it as falling in the domain of “economic policy” leaving no room for the judiciary to ponder over it.

Though the Centre has stated that Mr Gopal Subramaniam on being specifically questioned about his arguments in a meeting with high functionaries, had said that he “made no statements, concessions, admissions and acknowledgments” to the court on the issue in his oral arguments, the government said if at all he had made any such submissions, it was without any “implied authority or instructions”.

“It is submitted that the records of the applicant (government) also reveal that no such authority was conferred, nor any instructions were given to make any such concessions, admissions, statements and acknowledgements. It is further stated that implied authority to counsel to conduct the case does not cover such statements,” said the petition appended by secretary department of revenue, chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes and Director Enforcement.

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