West Bengal’s Advocate General Soumendra Nath Mookherjee Resigns From Office

West Bengal’s Advocate General (“AG”) SN Mookerjee resigned from his office, yesterday on 10^th November. In a letter addressed to the Governor of West Bengal, CV Ananda Bose, Mookherjee tendered his resignation, but refused to assign any specific reasons for the same.

Mookherjee, who hails from a family of lawyers, had been appointed as AG on 15^th September 2021, in wake of the 2021 State Assembly Elections in West Bengal.

Born in 1961, Mookherjee received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Presidency University, Kolkata, and completed his law degree from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, being called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in London, the following year.

Mookherjee, whose practise at the Calcutta High Court is predominantly on the commercial side, was designated as a senior advocate in 2003.

Notably, this development comes just days after the State government replaced its long-standing public prosecutor at the Calcutta High Court after a tenure of almost six years.