UP government announced a panel of 1495 government lawyers, two Additional Advocates General out of the list, have you seen the list?

Shiv Kumar Pal, who was Government Advocate in Allahabad, has also been made Additional Advocate General. On the other hand, Neeraj Tripathi, son of former Assembly Speaker Pandit Kesrinath Tripathi, has again been made Additional Advocate General. Apart from this, senior advocates Ashok Mehta, PK Giri, PK Srivastava, Manish Goyal, MC Chaturvedi and Ajit Kumar Singh have also been made Additional Advocates General. Similarly, out of nine CHCs, many names including Sheetal Prasad Gaur are new. The government has released the list of advocates for both civil and criminal side.

On the other hand, five Additional Advocates General Vinod Kumar Shahi, Kuldeep Pati Tripathi, Ashok Shukla, Anil Pratap Singh and Vimal Srivastava are among the newly appointed government advocates for the Lucknow bench. Additional Advocate General Ramesh Kumar Singh and MM Pandey and Chief Permanent Advocate Abhinav Narayan Trivedi have not been given a place in the new list. The government has appointed Shailendra Kumar, Prashant Singh Atal, Ravi Singh Sisodia, Deepshikha, Akhilesh Kumar Awasthi, Ajay Pandey and Jyotsna Pal as chief standing counsels in the new team.