Jammu and Kashmir government today appointed three Senior Additional Advocate Generals (Sr AAGs) and 10 Additional Advocates General (AAGs) among 32 lawyers for pleading cases of the state government.
Advocate Triloki Nath Razdan has been appointed as Senior Additional Advocate General at New Delhi to represent the state government before the Supreme Court of India, an official spokesman said.
Advocates S S Nanda and Seema Khajuria have been appointed as Senior Additional Advocates General for Jammu wing of the J&K High Court, he said.
Four Additional Advocate Generals have also been appointed for the Jammu wing namely Ravinder Gupta, Vishal Sharma, Lalit Kumar Moza and Rakesh Khajuria, while Ehsan Mirza, Ranjit Singh, Karan Singh Charak, P S Chandial, Parimoksh Seth and Bharat Singh Jamwal have been appointed as Deputy Advocates General, he said.
Those appointed as Government Advocates are Sudesh Kumat, Neeraj Gupta, Parveen Kapahi and Purnima Sharma.
Six Additional Advocate Generals appointed for Kashmir wing of the High Court are Bashir Ahmed Dar, Shahvar Gowhar, Showkat A Naqashbandi, Asif Ahmed Bhat, Javed Reshi and Shahbaz Sikander, the spokesman said.
Five Deputy Advocate Generals appointed for the same wing are Mehraj-ud-Din Bhat, Manzoor Ahmed Sheikh, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Chicken, Sayed Sajjad Geelani and Sajjad Mir, while the Government Advocates would be Javed Sathu, Irfan Andleeb, Zahoor-ul-Amin and Syed Shuja, he said.
