Senior Advocate Dr Birendra Saraf to be appointed as the new Advocate General for Maharashtra.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde earlier today accepted the resignation of AG Ashutosh Kumbhakoni and has decided to appoint senior Advocate Dr. Birendra Saraf as the new Advocate General for Maharashtra.

In a recent meeting, the cabinet recommended Saraf's. Saraf will be appointed Advocate General of Maharashtra when Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari gives his approval.

In all three years of his graduation from Mumbai University, Saraf was a top student at Government Law College, Mumbai. He has been practicing before the Bombay HC for the past 25 years.

He even worked in the chambers of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud as a junior lawyer.

Saraf joined the chambers of former Advocate General Ravi Kadam in 2000 after Chandrachud was elevated to the Bombay High Court.

In 2020, Saraf was designated as Senior Advocate.

Currently, he is the Vice-President of the Bombay Bar Association, where he served as Secretary for six years.

In September 2020, he successfully defended Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut against demolition activities by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on her Bandra property. Ranaut was allowed to make her property habitable after the High Court quashed the demolition notice.

Additionally, Saraf appeared in a highly contentious dispute between Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited and its largest shareholder, Invesco Developing Markets Fund.

In the Aryan Khan drug case, he also represented Dhyandev Wankhede, father of IRS officer Sameer Wankhede.