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The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the reappointment of Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta for a further word of 3 years from July 1, ensuring continuity successful the Centre's ineligible enactment earlier the Supreme Court and different law courts.
The determination was conveyed done an bid issued connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
Mr. Mehta volition proceed arsenic the country's second-highest instrumentality serviceman for a caller three-year term, oregon until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Mr. Mehta has represented the Union of India successful respective landmark cases involving law interpretation, nationalist security, electoral reforms, citizenship issues, taxation, integer regularisation and Centre-State disputes. He has regularly appeared earlier Constitution Benches of the Supreme Court and successful matters carrying important argumentation implications for the government.
Along with Mr. Mehta, the ACC has approved the reappointment of 5 Additional Solicitors General (ASGs) for the Supreme Court for different three-year term.
Vikramjit Banerjee and K.M. Nataraj person been reappointed with effect from July 1, 2026, portion Suryaprakash V. Raju, N. Venkataraman and Aishwarya Bhati person been reappointed from June 30, 2026.
In a abstracted decision, the authorities has reappointed Chetan Sharma arsenic Additional Solicitor General for the Delhi High Court for a further play of six months with effect from July 1, 2026, oregon until further orders.
The reappointments travel astatine a clip erstwhile the Union Government is engaged successful litigation involving a scope of constitutional, regulatory and nationalist argumentation issues earlier the Supreme Court and assorted High Courts.
Mr. Mehta, a elder advocator from Gujarat, archetypal joined the Centre's ineligible squad arsenic Additional Solicitor General successful 2014. He was elevated arsenic Solicitor General of India successful October 2018 and has since emerged arsenic 1 of the longest-serving holders of the bureau successful caller years. Prior to his assignment astatine the Centre, helium served arsenic Additional Advocate General for Gujarat.
