New Delhi, November 04: D R Meena, an Indian Legal Service officer, was today appointed as the new Law Secretary.
Meena (58) has so far been an additional secretary in the department of Legal Affairs in the Ministry of Law and Justice.
He replaces T K Viswanathan who retired on October 31.
Meena’s name was cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet.
Viswanathan, meanwhile, has taken over as adviser to Law Minister M Veerappa Moily. The post of adviser was recently approved by the union cabinet to help the government push legal and judicial reforms.
Last month, the government had appointed V K Bhasin as the Secretary, Legislative Department in the Law Ministry. The post had been lying vacant for the last two years.
–Agencies