The Central government on July 18 appointed Senior Advocate and former Madras High Court judge Justice PN Prakash as Special Public Prosecutor to handle matters on behalf of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) before the Supreme Court of India..The Ministry of Home Affairs released a notification on its official website confirming this appointment..He will be representing in the following NIA cases pending before the Supreme Court of India -(i) RC-42/2022/NIA/ DLI (ii) RC-33/2022/NIA/ DLI (iii) RC-02/2022/NIA/ DLI (iv) RC-01/2019/NIA/ DLI (v) RC-06/2019/NIA/ DLI.Following his retirement as a judge, Justice Prakash was designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court in October 2023.He practiced as a lawyer specialising in criminal law at the Madras High Court for almost three decades before he was elevated as a judge in 2013.As a judge of the Madras High Court, he authored several significant judgements and was instrumental in bringing into force the Tamil Nadu Criminal Rules of Practice, 2019..[Read Notification]
