Tushar Mehta named Solicitor General of India till June 2020

The government has appointed senior advocate Tushar Mehta as the Solicitor General of India till June 2020. The post of the second-highest ranking law officer of the government had fallen vacant after Ranjit Kumar resigned on October 20, 2017. Mehta has been serving as the Additional Solicitor General since mid-2014, when the BJP-led government came to power at the Centre.