AFTER A gap of one year, the former Chief Justice of India Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan has been appointed as chairman of National Human Rights Commission. K G Balakrishnan retired as the Chief Justice of India on May 12, 2010. In 1968, K G Balakrishnan was enrolled as advocate in Kerala Bar Council and practiced both in civil and criminal at Eranakulam (Cochin) in Kerala and was appointed as Munsif in the Kerala Judicial Services in 1973. Balakrishnan was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court on June 8, 2000, and on January 14, 2007, he was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by then President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. K G Balakrishnan was born at Thalayolaparambu, near Vaikom, in Travancore on May 12, 1945, into a Dalit family. After completing his primary education at the Government School in his village, he joined the Maharaja’s College at Ernakulam, where he completed his BSc. He took his B L degree from the Government Law College and enrolled as an advocate in the Kerala Bar Council in 1968. He then completed his LL M in 1971. Let us hope that former Chief Justice of India Balakrishnan will hold the chairmanship of National Human Rights Commission with same workmanship and make it a transparent body serving the people of the country.
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