Former Chandigarh MP and senior advocate Satya Pal Jain has been appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of India in Punjab & Haryana High Court for three years.
His appointed has been notified in the official gazette of the Government of India.
The post of Additional Solicitor General of India in Chandigarh was created for the first time by the Union Cabinet in December 2014.
Jain’s appointment made on this new post by the President of India will be governed by Government of India law Officers (Condition of Service) Rules, 1987, which include the service conditions of Attorney General, Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General of India.
Jain has been the All India Incharge of legal Cell of BJP for about 10 years.
He has represented the party in various important politico-legal battles like the liberhan Commission, Karnataka Defection case, HJC Defection case etc.
He has also been representing various senior leaders of the party, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lK Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Shanta Kumar, M Venkaiah Naidu, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Prem Kumar Dhumal in various courts.
Jain was elected to lok Sabha from Chandigarh in 1996 and 1998. The former MP has been associated with the RSS and the ABVP right from his college days.