Law Officers appointed for Madras HC, NGT and Puducherry [Read Notifications]

As the dust settles on the controversies surrounding the rules for appointment of law officers to the Madras High Court, the recent weeks have seen the appointment of such officers in various roles to appear before the Madras High Court, the National Green Tribunal (NGT), as well as to represent the Government of Puducherry,.The latest appointments were those of A Natarajan as the new Public Prosecutor and C Emilias as the eleventh Additional Advocate General. These appointments were notified by the Government on Monday..Before that, on Thursday the Government intimated the appointment of law officers to represent the Government of Puducherry in the Madras High Court..The officers so appointed include R Syed Mustafa as Special Government Pleader for service and CAT matters; AV Ramalingam, N Mala, D Ravichander and J Kumaran as Additional Government Pleaders; B Balavijayan, Stalin Abhimanyu, G Djearany, P Visvassoundaram and S Devie as Government Advocates and V Balamurugan as Additional Public Prosecutor..Last week also saw the appointment of two new Special Government Pleaders to the principal bench of the High Court. Sricharan Rangarajan, who has been serving as an Additional Government Pleader since last January, has now been appointed as a Special Government Pleader (civil suits). By the same notification, the government has also intimated the appointment of Mohammed Shafiq as a Special Government Pleader (taxes)..The last week of September also saw the appointment of several law officers to represent the Tamil Nadu State Pollution Board (TNPCB)..Rita Chandrasearan, A Elango, S Meena Kumari and Yasmin Ali have been appointed in this capacity to the principal bench of the Madras High Court. C Elaman has been appointed to represent the TNPCB at the Madurai Bench, whereas S Azhagamperumal has been tasked to appear before the NGT, Chennai..The same notification also intimates the appointment of Abdul Salem, C Kasirajan and V Vasanthakumar as standing counsel for the TNPCB at the NGT and the Madras High Court..Notably, it was on a PIL filed by Advocate Vasanthakumar that the Madras High Court issued directions to ensure that appointments were made in a fair and transparent manner under the Law Officers of High Court of Madras and its Bench at Madurai (Appointment) Rules, 2017..To this end, the Court had directed that guidelines be framed for the objective appointment of government counsel for the High Court. Last month, the Puducherry government had also undertaken to finalise rules to govern the fair selection of law officers for Puducherry within three months..Read notification appointing Special Government Pleaders to the Principal Bench of Madras High Court:.Read notification appointing Law Officers to represent TNPCB:.Read press release regarding appointment of Law Officers for the Puducherry Government: