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The terms of Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar and five other senior law officers have been extended by the government. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has extended the tenure of the law officers until further orders.
Mr Rohatgi was in June, 2014 appointed as the country’s chief law officer for a fixed three-year term. An order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said, the Additional Solicitor Generals who have been given extension for an indefinite period, are Pinky Anand, Maninder Singh, P S Patwalia, Tushar Mehta and P S Narsimha.