The 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,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".
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.
The High Court of Kerala is the highest court in the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territory of Lakshadweep. It is located in Kochi. Drawing its powers under Article 226 of the Constitution of India,the High Court has the power to issue directions,orders and writs including the writs of habeas corpus,mandamus,prohibition,quo warranto and certiorari for ensuring the enforcement of the Fundamental Rights guaranteed by the Constitution to citizens or for other specified purposes. The High Court is empowered with original,appellate and revisional jurisdiction in civil as well as criminal matters,and the power to answer references to it under some statutes. The High Court has the superintendence and visitorial jurisdiction over all courts and tribunals of inferior jurisdiction covered under its territorial jurisdiction.
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.
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.
Government Law College,Thiruvananthapuram is an institution for legal education at graduate and post-graduate levels in Kerala,India. Established by the then Maharaja of Travancore in 1875,it is one of the oldest law colleges in India. Affiliated to the Faculty of Law of University of Kerala and the Bar Council of India,the college is supervised and controlled by the Government of Kerala.
Alphons Joseph Kannanthanam or K. J. Alphons is an Indian civil servant,advocate,and politician from Kerala. He was Union Minister of State for Culture,and Tourism during first Modi ministry under Government of Narendra Modi. He also held charge for Electronics and Information Technology.
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.
Arun Kumar Mishra is former chairperson of National Human Rights Commission of India. He is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is the former chief justice of the Calcutta High Court and Rajasthan High Court. He has also served as acting chief justice of the Rajasthan High Court. He is a former judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
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.
Karunakaran Babu is an Indian judge who is presently serving as a 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. He was serving as the Principal District and Sessions Judge,Thiruvananthapuram before being elevated as the judge of Kerala High Court.
