K. K. Venugopal
K. K. Venugopal | |
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| 13th Attorney-General for India | |
| In office 1 July 2017 – 30 September 2022 | |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Mukul Rohatgi |
| Succeeded by | R. Venkataramani |
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| Born | Kottayan Katankot Venugopal 6 September 1931 Kanhangad, South Canara, Madras Presidency, British India (present day Kasaragod, Kerala, India) |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Kottayan Katankot Venugopal (born 6 September 1931) is an Indian constitutional lawyer and a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India. He was enrolled as an advocate on 27 January 1954. On 1 July 2017, he was appointed as the Attorney General of India and retired on 30 September 2022. He is Patron of SAARCLAW (A regional apex body of SAARC) and earlier has been its President. He is founder of M K Nambyar SAARCLAW Centre For Advanced Legal Studies at the NALSAR University of Law.