Mishra is a surname found among Hindu Brahmin,in the northern,eastern,western and central parts of India and in Nepal. This is the list of notable people with Mishra surname,who may or may not be associated with Brahmin caste.
National Human Rights Commission of India is a statutory body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance of 28 September 1993. It was given a statutory basis by the Protection of Human Rights Act,1993 (PHRA). The NHRC is responsible for the protection and promotion of human rights,which is defined by the act as "rights relating to life,liberty,equality and dignity of the individual guaranteed by the Constitution or embodied in the International Covenants and enforceable by courts in India".
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 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.
Ram Naresh Yadav was an Indian politician who was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1977 to 1979. He was from Janata Party;later he joined the Congress. He served as Deputy Chief Minister under the Babu Banarasi Das government from 1979 to 1980. He served as Deputy leader of Rajya Sabha in 1989. He also served as Governor of Madhya Pradesh from 26 August 2011 to 7 September 2016.
Jagdish Sharan Verma was an Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003,and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case. He remains one of India's most highly regarded Chief Justices and eminent jurists in its history.
Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge is an Indian lawyer and politician serving as the President of the Indian National Congress since 2022,and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha since 2021. He has been a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Karnataka since 2020.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019,having previously served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha,having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge in the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010,and then was transferred as a judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2010 to 2011 where he later was the Chief Justice from 2011 to 2012. He is also a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench at Indore is a permanent bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court in Indore. Hon’ble the Chief Justice,vide order dated 1 November 1956 constituted temporary benches of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Indore and Gwalior. Later,by a Presidential Notification Dated 28 November 1968,issued in the exercise of the powers conferred by the Subsection (2) of section 51 of the States Reorganisation Act,1956,permanent benches of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Indore and Gwalior were established.
Shivaraj Virupanna Patil is a retired Indian judge who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of India from 2000 to 2005.
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana is a former Indian judge and journalist who served as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
Prafulla Chandra Pant is an Indian judge and author who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2014 to 2017. He later served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission of India from 2019 to 2021,and briefly acted as its chairperson. Prior to his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of India,he had previously served as chief justice of the Meghalaya High Court at Shillong and as a judge of the Uttarakhand High Court at Nainital.
Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar is former judge of the Supreme Court of India who is currently serving as the Chairperson of Lokpal of India. He has also served as the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and Himachal Pradesh High Court and as a judge of the Bombay High Court.
P. P. Naolekar is the Lokayukta of Madhya Pradesh. He was also a Judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Deepak Verma is an Indian jurist and a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India. His career in the Indian judiciary includes serving as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court,acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka,and holding the position of a judge in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh. After retiring from the Supreme Court,Justice Verma has become known for his work as an international arbitrator and mediator,and he has acted as an expert on matters of Indian law in several high profile cases before foreign courts and international tribunals including the Enrica Lexie incident and the multi-billion dollar Vijay Mallya case. He has also assumed the role of a sports ombudsman in India. Additionally,he has chaired significant High-Powered Judicial Committees appointed by the High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He also serves as the chairperson and member of the advisory board of several distinguished non-profits,educational institutions and universities in India.
Rajendra Menon is an Indian judge. Presently,he is chairperson of Armed Forces Tribunal. He is former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He was born on 7 June 1957 and hails from Jabalpur,in Madhya Pradesh. He was a Judge and later the Acting Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court,and later the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court.
Ashok Kumar Mathur the former chief justice of Calcutta High Court and chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court,Justice of the Supreme Court of India. He was appointed the chairman of Armed Forces Tribunal,also he was appointed Chairman of 7th Central Pay Commission. He also conducted a court of inquiry in Boeing crash at Ahmedabad in 1987–88.
Narendra Mohan Kasliwal was a justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Shripathi Ravindra Bhat is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He has also served as chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court and judge of the Delhi High Court.
Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of the Sikkim High Court. Before that,he served as chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court. He was born in Joura,Madhya Pradesh. He was a practicing lawyer in Gwalior before he got elevated to the bench.
