Senior lawyer Maninder Singh has resigned as Additional Solicitor General (ASG) after serving as a government counsel for over four years. With Singh stepping down, the strength of the government lawyers at the ASG level is reduced to four - Pinki Anand, Atmaran Nadkarni, Aman Lekhi and Vikranjit Banerjee. Prior to Singh, senior counsel P S Narasimha had resigned as additional solicitor general. Another ASG Sandeep Sethi had quit earlier in 2018. Singh along with others was appointed ASG for a three-year term after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government came to power. He got an extension in 2017.