Hyderabad: Advocate Tera Rajanikanth Reddy has been appointed as the Additional Advocate-General (Addl A-G) of Telangana State. The state law secretary on Thursday issued an order appointing him to the post, which will be second to the Advocate General of Telangana State. In this position, he will represent the state government in the High Court.

Rajanikanth Reddy is an advocate practicing in the High Court for the last 15 years and worked with Senior High Court Advocate Chittarvu Raghu for several years. He dealt with a variety of cases in civil and criminal sides. So far, he filed more than 700 cases in the High Court in addition to those filed in various lower courts including Debt Recovery Tribunal.

He worked as a document auditor in HMDA (Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority) and assisted the past public prosecutor Chittarvu Nageswara Rao from 2005 to 2009.