Kapil Sibal is an Indian lawyer and politician. A designated Senior Advocate,and currently the President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). He has represented several high-profile cases in the Supreme Court of India and is a Member of Parliament,in Rajya Sabha.
Kaipuzha is a small village in Kottayam District and sub-district in the Indian state of Kerala. As of the 2001 census,it had a population of 6,991 in 1,565 households.
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.
Cherpunkal is a small town in the Kottayam district of Kerala State in India on the Kottayam-Palai Road,seven kilometers from Pala city.
Mathew Makil was the second Vicar Apostolic and the first indigenous Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Kottayam (Changanacherry),which is the Syro Malabar Archeparchy of Changanacherry today. Mathew Makil was also the first Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Kottayam,which is the Knanaya Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam today. In 1896,he became the Vicar Apostolic of the Vicariate of Changanacherry,and in 1911,when a new Vicariate Apostolic of Kottayam was constituted exclusively for the Knanaya Catholics,Mathew Makil was transferred to Kottayam as its first Vicar Apostolic. He died at Kottayam on 26 January 1914 and he was declared as Servant of God on 26 January 2009.
The Archeparchy of Kottayam is a Syro-Malabar Church metropolitan archeparchy of the Catholic Church in India. The archeparchy is exclusively for Knanaya faithful who claim to be the descendants of Syriac Judeo-Christians who migrated from South Mesopotamia to Kodungallur (Muziris) in South India in 4th century A.D.
The Suryanelli rape case refers to a case of kidnapping and subsequent rape of a 16-year-old school girl from Suryanelli,Kerala,India,in 1996. The girl was allegedly lured with the promise of marriage on 16 January 1996 and kidnapped. She was allegedly raped by 37 of the 42 accused persons,over a period of 40 days. The remaining had abetted the crime. After P.J. Kurien,the then Union Minister and later Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman belonging to UDF led by Congress party,was named,the issue was politicised,due to a then upcoming general election. Several women's rights activists like K. Ajitha and Suja Susan George,and women's organisations,like NFIW and Anweshi,have taken an interest in the case.
Prashant Bhushan is an Indian author and a public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He was a member of the faction of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement known as Team Anna which supported Anna Hazare's campaign for the implementation of the Jan Lokpal Bill. After a split in IAC,he helped Team Anna form the Aam Aadmi Party. In 2015,he made several allegations against the party's leadership,its functioning and its deviation from the core ideology,values and commitments. He is one of the founders of Swaraj Abhiyan and Sambhaavnaa,an Institute of Public Policy and Politics.
Satya Brata Sinha,known as S. B. Sinha was a jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Nambi Narayanan is an Indian aerospace scientist who worked for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). As a senior official at the ISRO,he was briefly in charge of the cryogenics division. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan,India's third-highest civilian award,in March 2019.
Polayil Joseph Thomas is a 1973 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from Kerala cadre. He was appointed as the 14th Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India,in an appointment that came under Supreme Court's review and later to be annulled by court as "non-est" in law. The appointment and the subsequent quashing led to several public debates with regard to the eligibility criteria for CVC's appointment,judicial activism,as well as the role played by mainstream media to hide several key facts that could establish his otherwise unblemished record in the civil services.
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India;he retired on 16 June 2023. He is former chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. Before his appointment as chief justice of the High Court of Uttarakhand on 31 July 2014,he had served as a judge of the Kerala High Court for more than nine years.
Kurian Joseph is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Previously,he has served as chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court and judge of the Kerala High Court.
Palanisamy Sathasivam is an Indian judge who served as the 40th Chief Justice of India,holding the office from 2013 to 2014. On retirement from his judicial career,Sathasivam was appointed the 21st Governor of Kerala from 5 September 2014 to 4 September 2019. Sathasivam is the second judge from Tamil Nadu to become the CJI,after M. Patanjali Sastri. He is also the first former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to be appointed the Governor of a state. He is the first Governor of Kerala to be appointed by the Narendra Modi Government.
Kallupurackal Thomas Thomas is an Indian former judge who served on the Supreme Court of India and is known for his strong opinions on Indian socio-political matters. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2007 for services in the field of social affairs.
Hira Lal Sibal was an Indian lawyer,jurist and two-time Advocate General of Punjab and Haryana,known for his legal defence of cases against the noted Urdu writers,Ismat Chugtai and Saadat Hasan Manto in 1945. He practised at Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Supreme Court of India.
Bechu Kurian Thomas is an Indian judge who is presently serving as a judge of the High Court of Kerala.
P. Somarajan is the judge of Kerala High Court.The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep. The High Court of Kerala is headquartered at Ernakulam,Kochi
Darmar Murugesan is a former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court. He has occupied many key posts in the Judiciary of India. He was elevated as a Judge of the Madras High Court from the Bar. He had formerly occupied the post of Member National Human Rights Commission of India.
ISRO espionage case involved discredited allegations of espionage made by Indian investigation agencies in the 1990s against some scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Indian intelligence agencies and the Kerala police arrested some senior aerospace engineers on charges of attempting to sell confidential documents containing designs of indigenous rocket engine developed by ISRO.
