Jaju Babu is the new Advocate General of Kerala, Asaf Ali appointed Director General of Prosecution

Senior lawyers K. Jaju Babu and T. Asaf Ali were appointed arsenic the Advocate General and the Director General of Prosecution (DGP), respectively, of the Kerala government connected Monday.

The appointments were made astatine the archetypal Cabinet gathering of the United Democratic Front (UDF) authorities led by Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan.

Mr. Babu, who was designated arsenic Senior Advocate of the Kerala High Court successful 2013, was earlier the ineligible advisor to the Governor of Kerala. He had besides served arsenic the counsel for the Chancellor of Universities successful Kerala for 15 years, and represented respective authorities agencies earlier the High Court.

Mr. Ali had earlier served arsenic the DGP during the tenure of the Oommen Chandy government.

Mr. Ali had appeared successful the Enrica Lexie case, successful which 2 fishermen were killed by Italian mariners, and the Sooryanelli intersexual exploitation case. He had besides appeared successful a bid of politically delicate cases, including the petition seeking a CBI probe by the parent of Ariyil Shukoor, an activistic of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) who was allegedly killed by CPI(M) workers.

Mr. Ali, a erstwhile president of the Indian Lawyers Congress Kerala High Court unit, had besides moved the Kerala High Court seeking CBI probes successful the politically important SNC Lavlin case involving erstwhile Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Shuhaib execution lawsuit successful Mattannur, and the Periya duplicate execution cases successful which CPI(M) workers were allegedly involved.