States »SoutPosted at: May 9 2021 5:11PM

Senior advocate Shanmugasundaram appointed TN AG

Chennai, May 9 (UNI) Senior Advocate and former DMK
Rajya Sabha MP R Shanmugasundaram was on Sunday
appointed as the new Advocate General of Tamil Nadu.
He succeeds Mr Vijay Narayan, who resigned from the
post soon after the DMK government headed by its Chief
M K Stalin assumed office after the party's victory in the
Assembly elections.
A GO issued by Chief Secretary V Irai Anbu said ''in
exercise of the powers conferred by Article 165(1) of
the Constitution, Governor Banwarilal Purohit hereby
appoints Mr Shanmugasundaram as the Advocate
General of Tamil Nadu, from the date of his taking
charge vice Vijay Narayan, resigned'', it said.
Mr Shanmugasundaram, a former Rajya Sabha MP
from 2002 to 2008, has 44 years of experience in the
Bar and has been a designated senior counsel for the
last 20 years.
He had also been the State Public Prosecutor from
1996 to 2001.
An experienced advocate, he studied the developments
in criminal law in Britain and attended court works at the
Old Bailey Central London Criminal Courts, Croydon
Crown Court and Royal Courts of Justice, London.
He also gained work experience at the Crown Prosecution
Department at Manchester, studied the investigation
procedures adopted there and observed the working system
of legal aid and probation procedures in Great Britain.
He was appointed as a counsel for the State of Tamil Nadu
before the Justice Jain Commission of Inquiry formed to probe
the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The Madras High Court had also appointed him as an amicus
curiae in the London hotel case, against former Chief Minister
J Jayalalithaa, considering the public importance and sensitive
nature of the case.
During his tenure as a Member of Parliament, he was part of
the Indian delegation to the United Nations that took part in the
59th General Assembly in October 2004.
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