The Central Government has constituted the 22nd Law Commission of India with former Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as its Chairperson. The Centre has also appointed former Kerala High Court judge Justice KT Sankaran,Prof. Anand Paliwal, Prof. DP Verma, Prof.(Dr) Raka Arya and Shri M. Karunanithi as members of the Commission.
The Law Commission of India had been remaining vacant since August 31, 2018, after the retirement of the Chairperson of the 21st Commission, former Supreme Court judge Justice BS Chauhan.
Justice Awasthi was a judge of the Allahabad High Court and retired on July 3, 2022 as the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. He had presided over the Full Bench of the High Court which upheld the ban on wearing hijab by Muslim girls in Government colleges in Karnataka.
Justice KT Sankaran was a judge of the Kerala High Court from February 2005 to December 2016. In 2009,
A PIL is pending in the Supreme Court against the delay in constituting the Law Commission. Recently, the Centre told the Supreme Court that the issue of Uniform Civil Code will be placed before the Law Commission of India as soon as it is constituted.
