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| office = [[Law Secretary (India)|Law Secretary]]<br />
| name = Anoop Kumar Mendiratta<br />
| predecessor = [[Alok Srivastava, IAS (civil servant)|Alok Srivastava]]<br />
| successor = <br />
| minister = [[Ravi Shankar Prasad]]<br />
| primeminister = [[Narendra Modi]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| termstart = {{start date|2019|10|23|df=y}}<br />
| termend = <br />
| image = Anoop Kumar Mendiratta.jpg<br />
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'''Anoop Kumar Mendiratta''' is a serving Judicial Officer of [[Judiciary of India|Delhi Higher Judicial Services]], currently deputed as the Law Secretary of India. Before posting on central deputation as [[Secretary to the Government of India|Union Law Secretary]], he was serving as the District and sessions judge of the North-East Delhi District Court. Also in his earlier deputation he had served as [[Principal secretary (India)|Principal Secretary]] Law Department with the [[Government of Delhi]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
As a judge, Mendiratta headed the North-East Delhi District Court as its [[district and sessions judge]], headed the Motor Accidents Claim Tribunal, and served as a [[Central Bureau of Investigation|CBI]] special judge in 2012.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/serving-sessions-judge-appointed-as-the-union-law-secretary/articleshow/71586832.cms|title=For the first time, serving judge appointed Union Law Secretary|date=2019-10-21|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2020-01-12|url-status=live|agency=ET Bureau|publication-place=[[New Delhi]]|issn=0013-0389|oclc=61311680}}</ref><br />
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He also served as the [[Principal secretary (India)|Principal Secretary]] (Law) in the [[Government of Delhi|Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi]], during which he had disagreements with Delhi law minister [[Kailash Gahlot]], resulting in his repatriation to his parent judicial cadre.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/a-k-mendiratta-appointed-union-law-secretary-6069224/|title=A K Mendiratta appointed Union law secretary|last=M.|first=Kaunain Sheriff|date=2019-10-15|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en-US|publication-place=[[New Delhi]]|oclc=70274541|url-status=live|access-date=2020-01-12}}</ref><br />
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=== Law Secretary ===<br />
Mendiratta was appointed [[Law Secretary (India)|Secretary (Legal Affairs)]], heading the [[Department of Legal Affairs]] in the [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Ministry of Law and Justice]], on deputation from the judicial service,<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/delhi-confidential/animal-husbandry-sanjeev-balyan-bjp-6082861/|title=Delhi Confidential: A View On Room|date=2019-10-23|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en-IN|publication-place=[[New Delhi]]|oclc=70274541|url-status=live|access-date=2020-01-12|agency=Express News Service}}</ref> by the [[Appointments Committee of the Cabinet]], on the advice of a search-cum-selection committee, which interviewed more than 60{{Nbsp}}people for the job.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/anoop-kumar-mendiratta-appointed-new-law-secretary-119101401249_1.html|title=Anoop Kumar Mendiratta appointed new Law Secretary|date=2019-10-14|work=[[Business Standard]]|access-date=2020-01-12|url-status=live|agency=[[Press Trust of India]]|publication-place=[[New Delhi]]|oclc=496280002}}</ref> His appointment marked the first time a serving judge was appointed Law Secretary, breaking the earlier tradition of appointing [[Indian Legal Service]] officers to the post.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><br />
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