Former Supreme Court Judge Justice N Venkatachala Passes Away

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30 Oct 2019 5:00 AM

  • Former Supreme Court Judge Justice N Venkatachala Passes Away

    Justice N Venkatachala, who was a judge of Supreme Court from July 1, 1992 to July 2, 1995, passed away on Wednesday morning.He was aged 89 years.He was born on July 3, 1930 in Mittur village in Kolar district of Karnataka.Venkatachala enrolled as an Advocate in the then High Court of Mysore on 16 November 1955. He served as a part-time reader in Mercantile Law from 1958 to 1970 and a...

    Justice N Venkatachala, who was a judge of Supreme Court from July 1, 1992 to July 2, 1995,  passed away on Wednesday morning.

    He was aged 89 years.

    He was born on July 3, 1930 in Mittur village in Kolar district of Karnataka.

    Venkatachala enrolled as an Advocate in the then High Court of Mysore on 16 November 1955. He served as a part-time reader in Mercantile Law from 1958 to 1970 and a legal adviser to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal from 1963 to 1973 and Bangalore University from 1970 to 1973. He was appointed as High Court government pleader in 1968 and continued in that position till 1977. He was appointed as additional judge for Karnataka High Court on 28 November 1977 and a permanent judge on 8 September 1978. He was appointed as the acting Chief Justice for Karnataka High Court in May, 1992.

    After his retirement as SC judge, he was appointed as the Lok Ayukta of Karnataka on July 2, 2001. He is known to have been highly pro-active as the Lok Ayukta. In his four and a half years in office, he had looked into more than 50,000 cases of misconduct and complaints from members of the public. There was a public campaign to give him a second term as Lok Ayukta, which could not be done due to the legal bar for reappointment.




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