♦ Anju Rathi Rana was appointed as the new Union law secretary on 5 March 2025.

♦ She is the first woman to be appointed secretary, legal affairs, who is also called the law secretary.

♦ Rana joined the law ministry as a joint secretary in 2017. Prior to that, she was a public prosecutor in the Delhi government for 18 years.

♦ Niten Chandra, an IAS officer, was the last law secretary and the post was lying vacant for the past few months.