Satya Pal Jain re-appointed as Additional Solicitor General of India for 6th Term
Babushahi Network
Chandigarh, September 23, 2026: Satya Pal Jain, Ex-City MP & Senior Advocate has been re-appointed as the Additional Solicitor General of India in Punjab & Haryana High Court Chandigarh by the President of India for a 6th Term upto 31-12-2026.
His extension has been notified in the Raj Patra of Bharat Sarkar (Official Gazette of the Government of India). The post of Additional Solicitor General of India in Chandigarh was created for the first time by the Union Cabinet in December 2014 and Jain was appointed as the First Additional Solicitor General of India at Chandigarh by the President of India on 9th April 2015. This post is governed by the Government of India Law Officers (Condition of Service) Rules, 1987, which include the service conditions of Attorney General, Solicitor General and the Additional Solicitors General of India. As the Additional Solicitor General of India, he is the Litigation Incharge for all cases of the Central Government in the Punjab & Haryana High Court. A Government of India panel of about 200 lawyers, comprising of Dpty. SG, Senior Panel Counsels and Central Government Counsels, works under him in the High Court and Jain is responsible for distribution and allotment of cases amongst all these lawyers. He is also the overall Incharge of litigation of the Government of India in the District & Subordinate Courts in Punjab, Haryana & U.T. Chandigarh. Jain has been the All India Incharge of the Legal Cell of the BJP for about 10 years. A noted constitutional lawyer, Jain has represented the party in various important politico-legal battles like the Liberhan Commission, Karnataka Defection case, HJC Defection case etc.. He was the Election Agent of P. A. Sangma, B. S. Sekhawat and Nezma Heptulla in the Presidential and Vice Presidential Elections. He has represented Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Former Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, L.K. Advani, Late Sushma Swaraj, Shanta Kumar, Prem Kumar Dhumal, in various courts in India.
Jain said that he is thankful to the Government of India especially Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India and Arjun Ram Meghwal the Law Minister of India for giving him an opportunity to serve this institution for sufficiently long period of time more than 11 years. Jain was elected to Lok Sabha from Chandigarh in 1996 and 1998. He also won elections to Panjab University Senate from the Graduates Constituency in 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988. He was nominated as a member of the PU Senate by the Vice President of India in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020. A noted constitutional lawyer, Jain has been associated with the RSS & the ABVP right from his college days.