R. Shunmugasundaram takes charge as Advocate General of Tamil Nadu

Senior counsel R. Shunmugasundaram took charge as the Advocate General of Tamil Nadu on Sunday. A Government Order issued on Saturday said that the Governor had accepted the federal government’s proposal to nominate him as the brand new Advocate General for the State.

He is predicted to characterize the State Government earlier than the primary Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy on Monday in the course of the listening to of a public curiosity litigation petition, taken up by the courtroom suo motu, to watch the measures being taken by the federal government to battle the second wave of COVID-19.

Mr. Shunmugasundaram has an expertise of 44 years within the Bar and has been a delegated senior counsel for the final 20 years. He can also be a former Member of Parliament who represented the State within the Rajya Sabha from 2002 to 2008 and had been the State Public Prosecutor from 1996 to 2001.

After finishing his regulation diploma and enrolling with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in 1977, he had joined the workplace of well-known legal lawyer N. Natarajan and gained expertise underneath him until 1980. Thereafter, he obtained appointed as an Additional Public Prosecutor in 1989 and performed prosecutions on behalf of the State, Central Bureau of Investigation and the Railways on the Madras High Court.

In 1992, he studied the developments in legal regulation in Britain and attend courtroom works on the Old Bailey Central London Criminal Courts, Croydon Crown Court and Royal Courts of Justice, London. He additionally gained work expertise on the Crown Prosecution Department at Manchester, studied the investigation procedures adopted over there and noticed the working system of authorized support and probation procedures in Great Britain.

He was appointed as a counsel for the State of Tamil Nadu earlier than Justice M.C. Jain Commission of Inquiry instituted to probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The Madras High Court too had appointed him as an amicus curiae within the London resort case, towards former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, contemplating the general public significance and delicate nature of the case.

Then, he had pursued the Letters Rogatory issued by a particular courtroom in Chennai and labored with the Serious Fraud Office in London and the Attorney General’s Criminal Division at Canberra, Australia for accumulating proof from UK, Malaysia and Australia. During his tenure as a MP, he was half of the Indian delegation to the United Nations and took part in its 59th General Assembly in October 2004.