K. K. Venugopal

K. K. Venugopal
13th Attorney-General for India
In office
1 July 2017 (2017-07-01) – 30 September 2022 (2022-09-30)
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Preceded byMukul Rohatgi
Succeeded byR. Venkataramani
Personal details
Born
Kottayan Katankot Venugopal

(1931-09-06) 6 September 1931 (age 93)
Kanhangad, South Canara, Madras Presidency, British India
(present day Kasaragod, Kerala, India)
Alma mater
OccupationLawyer
Awards

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]

  1. ^ Constitutional experts criticise CEC’s decision
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Senior advocate R. Venkataramani is the new Attorney General of India". The Hindu. 28 September 2022.
  4. ^ "K.K. Venugopal". January 2019.
  5. ^ "M K Nambyar SAARCLAW Centre for Advanced Legal Studies | NALSAR UNIVERSITY OF LAW".