K. K. Venugopal | |
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| 13th Attorney-General for India | |
| In office 1 July 2017 – 30 September 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Mukul Rohatgi |
| Succeeded by | R. Venkataramani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal 6 September 1931 Kanhangad, South Canara, Madras Presidency, British India (present day Kasaragod, Kerala, India) |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Kottayan Katankot Venugopal (born 6 September 1931) is an Indian constitutional lawyer and a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India.[1] He was enrolled as an advocate on 27 January 1954. On 1 July 2017, he was appointed as the Attorney General of India and retired on 30 September 2022.[2][3] He is Patron of SAARCLAW (A regional apex body of SAARC) and earlier has been its President.[4] He is founder of M K Nambyar SAARCLAW Centre For Advanced Legal Studies at the NALSAR University of Law.[5]
- ^ Constitutional experts criticise CEC’s decision
- ^ "I will be 90 by the time this one year will be over: KK Venugopal; Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad speaks on Attorney General's extension". 12 June 2020.
- ^ "Senior advocate R. Venkataramani is the new Attorney General of India". The Hindu. 28 September 2022.
- ^ "K.K. Venugopal". January 2019.
- ^ "M K Nambyar SAARCLAW Centre for Advanced Legal Studies | NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW".