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Kirit Rawal appointed solicitor general

Additional Solicitor General Kirit N Rawal has been promoted to the post of Solicitor General of India.

Rawal, who replaces Harish N Salve, has been additional solicitor general for four years.

The government promoted Rawal after Salve refused to continue beyond November 3, when his term ends.

Rawal, 50, is one of the youngest solicitors general and the first from Gujarat.

He holds a MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was designated a senior advocate in 1995 and appointed additional solicitor general in May 1998.

An upright lawyer and a firm believer in the rule of the law, Rawal had returned the brief to the Delhi government after it refused to implement the Supreme Court's order to convert diesel-run buses to compressed natural gas (CNG) mode.

Before his promotion, Rawal was defending the government in the Venkataswamy Commission, probing allegations of corruption in defence deals in the aftermath of the Tehelka expose.

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