Additional Solicitor General (ASG) at Calcutta High Court YJ Dastoor has resigned from the post. .In a letter written to Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday, Dastoor said that he is resigning from the post with immediate effect but gave no reasons for the same.Dastoor has been serving as ASG since June 2020.He was in news recently when he wrote to the Editor of the Times of India seeking retraction of an article which stated that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) found no evidence in 21 rape and attempt to rape cases filed in the wake of the post-poll violence in West Bengal last year.Dastoor is the second Central government law officer to resign in a span of little over a month. On March 4, Supreme Court ASG Aman Lekhi had tendered his resignation and returned to private practice.Read our interview of Aman Lekhi here.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) at Calcutta High Court YJ Dastoor has resigned from the post. .In a letter written to Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday, Dastoor said that he is resigning from the post with immediate effect but gave no reasons for the same.Dastoor has been serving as ASG since June 2020.He was in news recently when he wrote to the Editor of the Times of India seeking retraction of an article which stated that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) found no evidence in 21 rape and attempt to rape cases filed in the wake of the post-poll violence in West Bengal last year.Dastoor is the second Central government law officer to resign in a span of little over a month. On March 4, Supreme Court ASG Aman Lekhi had tendered his resignation and returned to private practice.Read our interview of Aman Lekhi here.
