Newly-appointed Assistant Solicitor General Anurag Kumar has to his credit the experience of working with two Chief Justices of India as well as several judges of the Supreme Court. The ASG, for whom taking over charge was not so smooth, is a seventh generation lawyer and has been associated with Jharkhand since he joined the profession in 1999.
In an exclusive talk with The Pioneer, Kumar said that he has vowed to transform the ASG office, which is currently in a complete mess. According to Kumar, the office of ASG needs a complete revival as the office as well as work culture is in a complete mess.
“I have written to the concerned person to first provide me a better office space as the present office is in a complete mess without any infrastructure, the files are piled up, there is no proper place to sit, no fax machine, no computer and other facilities,” added Kumar. Since the office of ASG is a prestigious one, there must be proper work culture and environment, in order to give quality service to the people, he said.
Kumar, a seventh generation lawyer has a prestigious family background of lawyers and politicians including – the great revolutionary leader late lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (JP), former Chief Minister of Bihar Mahamaya Singh as well as former Ambassador of India in several countries late Baleshwar Prasad who also became lieutenant Governor of Delhi. Kumar’s great great-grandfather Munshi Hira lal was also the first government pleader in India after courts were established in India centuries ago.
Kumar’s father late Ratneshwar Nath Sahay was a renowned civil lawyer who also became the Dean of the faculty of law at Bihar University. His mother Shyama
Sahay also had been Member Consumer Forum, Government of Jharkhand.
Kumar has been practicing at Supreme Court looking after a number of cases relating to constitutional, corporate, criminal, civil, family as well as labour laws. Kumar has also been working as Central Government Counsel as well as Special Counsel for Indian Railways. He also worked as Advocate Consultant of National Human Rights Commission and dealt with over 7,000 cases of NHRC.
“Even though I was based in Delhi and was practicing as a Supreme Court lawyer, I have been associated with Jharkhand and have some high profile clients here like former Chief Ministers Babulal Marandi, Shibu Soren, Rajya Sabha MP PK Balmuchu along with several other senior leaders, bureaucrats and trade unions,” said Kumar. “We have been running our offices at Ranchi, Patna and Delhi and have visited these places quite often”, he added.