HARIN RAWAL IS THE NEW ADDNTL SOLICITOR GENERAL OF INDIA.

Gujarat’s assistant solicitor general Harin P Rawal has been appointed as additional solicitor general of India (ASG)
Harin Raval will now assist Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati and Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium. The appointments have been cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet. Indira Jaisingh has also been appointed ASG and she is the first woman ASG in India.

Advocate Gaurav Banerjee, whose father Milon Banerjee was the Attorney General in the last government, has also been appointed Additional Solicitor General of India (ASG) by the Government. He is among 12 lawyers who have been appointed ASGs .
Also in the list is former Haryana Advocate-General and Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyer Mohan Jain. Sources said Jain has been asked to shift base to New Delhi to handle Government of India cases in the Supreme Court. Other names in the list are current ASGs Mohan Parasaran, Ashok Nigam (for Allahabad High Court), Parag P Tripathi, Muthukrishnan Ravindran for Chennai and P P Malhotra.
Earlier Kirit Rawal from Gujarat had been an ASG.
Interesting tit bits about Harin Rawal:
· Harin Rawal is known as an articulate well read man with a refined taste
· Harinbhai’s father pravinbhai was the first assistant advocate general of Gujarat after Gujarat became an independent state.
· Harin Rawal is also interested in politics. He contested the 1998 assembly elections on a Congress ticket from Ellisbridge constituency in Ahmedabad. He lost to Haren Pandya.
All the best Mr Harin Rawal and may justice prevail. Always and everywhere!