National Human Rights Commission; Former Supreme Court judge V Ramasubramanian appointed as new chairman

NEW DELHI: Former Supreme Court judge V Ramasubramanian has been appointed as the ninth chairman of the National Human Rights Commission. The appointment was made by a high-powered committee chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 18. He is a native of Tamil Nadu. V Ramasubramanian has been appointed as the chairman after Arun Kumar Mishra completed his term on June 1.

Ramasubramanian was a Supreme Court judge from 2019-2023. Before that he was the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. He became an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court in 2006. In 2016, he became a judge in the Judicial High Court of Hyderabad, constituted for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Ramasubramanian became a Telangana High Court judge in 2019. He completed law studies from Madras Law College and enrolled in 1983. Ramasubramanian made headlines in 2015 by conducting an emergency trial over Skype in a case involving 89 inmates of an orphanage. He has contributed rulings that supported freedom of speech.