Senior Advocate Satya Darshi Sanjay appointed Advocate General of Bihar

Senior Advocate Satya Darshi Sanjay has been appointed as the Advocate General of Bihar.

A notification issued by the Bihar government’s Law Department said that the Governor has appointed Satya Darshi Sanjay to the post under Article 165(1) of the Constitution of India.

The appointment will take effect from the date on which he assumes charge.

Satya Darshi Sanjay is presently an Additional Solicitor General who appears before the Supreme Court of India.

He has also represented the Union government before the Patna High Court.

He has been closely associated with litigation in Bihar for several years. He was appointed Additional Solicitor General of India for the Patna High Court in 2015. In 2018, he was reappointed for a second term as Bihar’s first Additional Solicitor General.

In September 2024, Sanjay was appointed Additional Solicitor General of India in the Supreme Court for a period of three years.

According to his public profile, he studied law at the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He has practised before the Patna High Court and the Supreme Court of India.

He has appeared in several important matters for the Union government and has also been engaged in cases before other constitutional courts.

The post of Advocate General had fallen vacant earlier this week after Senior Advocate Prashant Kumar Shahi recently resigned from the post following a change in the State regime.

Shahi had been appointed to the post in 2023 when the State government was led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. 

Following the recent swearing-in of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Samrat Chaudhary as Chief Minister, Shahi stepped down to allow the new government to appoint its own AG.

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