Former Supreme Court Judge Arun Mishra Appointed Chief Of Human Rights Panel

NHRC Chief: Justice Arun Mishra, who had become a Supreme Court judge on July 7, 2014, demitted office in September 2020. During his tenure, he dealt with several politically-sensitive cases, and many activists then had opposed the allocation of such cases to him.

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra on Wednesday took charge as the new chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, officials said. Justice Mishra, who had created a flutter after praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event last year, is the eighth chairperson of the commission. Speaking at the International Judicial Conference 2020, he had termed PM Modi as an "internationally acclaimed visionary" and a "versatile genius, who thinks globally and acts locally". Complimenting the Prime Minister and Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for doing away with 1,500 obsolete laws, justice Mishra had said that India is a responsible and most friendly member of the international community under the "stewardship" of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.