Justice Mahesh Mittal Kumar takes over as NHRC member

Chandigarh, June 4

Former Chief Justice of J&K High Court and former Acting Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana HC, Justice Mahesh Mittal Kumar, has joined as National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member.

A retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Arun Mishra, has also assumed charge as the NHRC chairperson. Initially elevated as a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in July 2001, Justice Kumar was elevated further as the Chief Justice of J&K in June 2012. Justice Kumar was later appointed as the chairman of Company law Board, which was dissolved after the constitution of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to expedite adjudication matters under the companies’ law. Justice Kumar was then appointed as the NCLT president.

Born on January 5, 1953, Justice Kumar did his LLB in 1977 before being enrolled with the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. He went on to do LLM from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 1982. He also authored book “Control of Exclusion Clauses in England and India” in 1985 and also worked as part-time lecturer in PU from 1984 to 1990. — TNS