Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is an Indian judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and later the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He was the first judge from Kerala to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His tenure lasting more than three years has been one of the longest in the Supreme Court of India. While being Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court,he was appointed as the acting governor of Gujarat from 16 January 1999 to 18 March 1999. In 2010,he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Cochin University of Science and Technology.
The judiciary of Pakistan is the national system of courts that maintains the law and order in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan uses a common law system,which was introduced during the colonial era,influenced by local medieval judicial systems based on religious and cultural practices. The Constitution of Pakistan lays down the fundamentals and working of the Pakistani judiciary.
Cyriac Joseph was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 7 July 2008 to 27 January 2012.
Satya Brata Sinha,known as S. B. Sinha was a jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Ranjana Prakash Desai is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the head of the Delimitation Commission of India. She was previously a public prosecutor for the State of Maharashtra,and served as a judge on the Bombay High Court before her appointment from the Supreme Court. Following her retirement from the Supreme Court,Desai was the chairperson of the Indian Appellate Tribunal for Electricity.
Arjan Kumar Sikri is an eminent jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge on 12 April 2013. Earlier,he had served as the chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He retired as senior most puisne judge of Supreme Court of India on 6 March 2019.
Parimal Dhirajlal Nathwani is an Indian politician and industrialist. He is a M.P,Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh since the 2020 Rajya Sabha elections,previously serving as a Rajya Sabha MP for Jharkhand from 2008-2020.
Ashok Bhushan is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and the chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal. He was the 31st chief justice of the Kerala High Court. He is a former judge of the Kerala High Court and Allahabad High Court.
Justice Gita Mittal is a retired Indian judge. She is the former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the first woman judge to serve in that capacity. She has also served as the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court while she was serving as a Judge of the Delhi High Court.
Abhilasha Kumari served as Judicial Member of Lokpal of India since 23 March 2019 to 26 March 2024. She is a former judge who served on the High Court of Gujarat from 2006 to 2018,and as the first female Chief Justice on the Manipur High Court in 2018. She was a chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of the Gujarat state of India from 17 May 2018 to 23 March 2019.
Aniruddha Bose is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is also the former chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court and judge of the Calcutta High Court.
Y. R. Meena or Yad Ram Meena was an Indian Judge and the former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court.
M. Karpaga Vinayagam is an Indian judge,Tamil scholar and former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.
Lingappa Narayana Swamy is an Indian judge and the former Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. He is former Judge of Karnataka High Court. He served as the Acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court from 18 January 2019 to 9 May 2019,after the elevation of Justice Dinesh Maheshwari to Supreme Court of India.
Virender Singh (judge) (born 7 October 1954) is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court.
Vikram Nath is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Gujarat High Court and former judge of the Allahabad High Court. He was earlier recommended as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court but the centre disapproved the recommendations. He is the first chief justice of a High Court in India to live stream its proceedings on Youtube during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
Abhay Shreeniwas Oka is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is a former chief justice of the Karnataka High Court and judge of the Bombay High Court.
Justice Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi is an Indian judge. He is former Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Tripura High Court. He has also served as Judge of Bombay High Court and Gujarat High Court,of which he has also served as an Acting Chief Justice.
Justice Vineet Kothari is an Indian Judge who is now a designated Senior Advocate practising at Supreme Court of India. He is former Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court. He is Former Judge of Madras High Court,Karnataka High Court and Rajasthan High Court.
Appellate Tribunal for Electricity is created as a statutory and autonomous body under the Electricity Act,2003 to hear complaints,appeals or original petitions against the orders of the State Regulatory Commission,The Central Regulatory Commission,Joint Commission or the Adjudicating officer.
