Daijiworld Media Network-Bengaluru (RJP)
Bengaluru, Nov 15: Senior advocate Madhusudhan R Naik has been appointed as the advocate general to represent the state government in the Karnataka High Court.
It is learned that the notification regarding the appointment will be issued this week. Naik’s appointment comes after the chief minister Siddaramaiah accepted the resignation of advocate general Ravivarma Kumar. After that the chief minister recommended Madhusudhan Naik's name to the governor for appointment to the post of advocate general.
Naik hails from Hanehalli in Kumta taluk of Uttara Kannada district. He graduated in law in 1976 from Mysore University and later did his postgraduate diploma in environmental law from National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He worked with Justice N Santosh Hegde's law firm for almost 10 years.
Naik was the standing counsel for KSRTC, Konkan Railways Corporation and ComedK. He has also appeared in several cases pertaining to land reforms, service, local board, taxation, excise and education. He has represented KIADB, BDA, Human Rights Commission, Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission and the state transport department among others in various cases. He was also appointed the amicus curiae in a case related to protection of elephants.
Ravivarma Kumar had submitted his resignation letter to Siddaramaiah on October 26. It is said that he was not happy over the government appointing two additional advocate-generals (AAG), whose names he had not recommended. The government had recently appointed Raghavendra Nadagouda as AAG for the Kalburgi bench of the Karnataka High Court and Devadat Kamat as AAG for the Supreme Court.
Siddaramaiah, however, had not accepted Kumar’s resignation and had tried to convince him not to step down. On an earlier occasion also in March 2014, Kumar had resigned when the government appointed two senior counsels to argue in the Supreme Court cases related to the Cauvery and Krishna river water dispute, without consulting him.
Madhusudhan Naik has said that he was happy to accept the responsible post and will do justice to it.