Write a short note on Attorney General for India.

 The Attorney-General of India is the most superior and the only constitutional position with respect to law officer of the Central Government. 

Article 76 of the Constitution of India talks of his duty and states that his duty is to give advice to the Government of India upon such legal matters, and to perform other duties of a legal character which may be referred or assigned to him by the President and to discharge the functions conferred on him by or under the Constitution or any other law from time to time.

He is appointed by the President of India and for this he shall be qualified to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court as has been mentioned under Article 76 of the Constitution of India. While performing his duties, the Attorney- General has the right of audience in all courts in the territory of India. He holds his office during the pleasure of the President, and receives his remuneration as the President determines.

He also has the right with respect to parliamentary proceedings, as Article 88 of the Constitution of India grants right to the Attorney-General of India to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of, either House, any joint sitting of the Houses, and any committee of Parliament of which he may be named a member, but shall not by virtue of this article be entitled to vote.

Recently the help provided by the Attorney General in the Campa-Cola Compound demolition mess and the stay order of the Supreme Court thereafter shows the social importance of this constitutional position.