A row over a Government Pleader’s appointment in 1960 and its aftermath

During K. Kamaraj’s rule, the appointment of A. Alagiriswami as Government Pleader had initially triggered a row over propriety but eventually, led to the virtual clash between the two organs of the state. In 1970, he was the Chairman of the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission, and two years later, a Supreme Court judge