Mumbai/Nagpur: Maharashtra Advocate General Sunil Manohar has resigned from his post on Monday citing personal reasons. The government, which is yet to take a call on this, may take a decision today.
The state cabinet is also likely to discuss the development, said official sources. Manohar, who hails from Nagpur, was appointed as the state’s highest legal representative by BJP-led government after it came to power in 2014.
Son of former AG and reputed criminal law expert V R Manohar, the AG had started his stint with the task of saving the BJP CM and his government. A task he accomplished successfully in the Bombay HC. He has since appeared in several important matters and was handling the beef ban matter which is still pending.
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He handed his letter to the CM Devendra Fadnavis while he was in Nagpur last week. Though formally the government may have to accept his resignation, acceptance is a formality. Manohar had been appointed AG last November.
The AG confirmed to media that he has put in his papers citing “personal reasons”.
The 50-year-old Manohar is a gold-medallist lawyer. His father, criminal law counsel V R Manohar, had also been advocate general.
The senior Manohar, now 81 years old, was advocate general when Sharad Pawar was CM in 1991 and later Sudhakarrao Naik in 1992-93.
In the legal fraternity, the younger Manohar was known to wield in equal measure the legal prowess his father’s was reputed for.
His brother Shashank (57), also a lawyer, is a former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. His sister Vasanti Naik is a Bombay high court judge in the Nagpur bench.
Sunil has played in the Ranji Trophy for Vidarbha.
