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Balakrishnan joins NHRC as Chairperson | Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, former Chief Justice of India today joined as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He is the sixth
Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission. Born on the 12th May, 1945
at in Kottayam District, Kerala, Justice Balakrishnan enrolled as an advocate
of the Kerala Bar Council on the 16th March, 1968 and pleaded both criminal and
civil cases in the Ernakulam Court. He was appointed as a Munsif in the Kerala
Judicial Service on the 10th January, 1973 and later resigned from the service
and resumed practice as an advocate in the Kerala High Court. He was appointed
as a Judge of the Kerala High Court on the 26th September, 1985. He became the
Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court on the 16th July, 1998 and was transferred
to the High Court of Judicature at Madras and assumed charge there as Chief Justice
on the 9th September, 1999. He was elevated as the Judge of the Supreme Court
on the 8th June, 2000. On 14th January, 2007 he was appointed as the Chief Justice
of India and retired on the 12th May, 2010. During his tenure in the Supreme Court,
he delivered several landmark judgements. These included an order which made the
mid-day meal programme in schools a statutory requirement. This order brought
relief to millions of poor children who had to discontinue their studies due to
poverty. Recently a division bench headed by him held as unconstitutional forcible
narco-analysis, polygraph and brain electrical activation profile or brain-mapping
tests by the investigating agencies which were raising concerns on the human rights
of the people. Mr. Justice Balakrishnan has participated in a number of international
seminars and delivered thought provoking lectures at various Universities on legal
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