Tamil Nadu Advocate General R Shunmugasundaram is set to resign from the post and return to private practice.“I will meet the Chief Minister today and personally submit my resignation papers,” the former Rajya Sabha Member said in a statement.
Shunmugasundaram took over as Advocate General in May 2021 after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) came to power in the State.With an experience of over four decades at the Bar, Shunmugasundaram is perhaps best known as being the lawyer that aided in proving the disproportionate assets against former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.A second generation lawyer born in Tirunelveli in October 1953, Shunmugasundaram started his career working as a junior to the legendary criminal lawyer N Natarajan. His father S Rajagopal was public prosecutor and special prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in Madurai.He was appointed as a counsel for Tamil Nadu before the Justice MC Jain Commission that probed the assassination of former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. He was also amicus curiae in the London Hotel case against Jayalalithaa.
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