Former Judge of Supreme Court of India, Justice (retd.) V. Ramasubramanian was appointed as Chairman of NHRC on 23-12-2024. The post had been lying vacant after Justice (retd.) Arun Mishra completed his tenure on 1-6-2024.
Justice (retd.) V. Ramasubramanian’s appointment was made by a committee comprising of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Leaders of the Opposition (LoPs), Mallikarjun Kharge (Rajya Sabha) and Rahul Gandhi (Lok Sabha).
Justice V. Ramasubramanian was born on 30-06-1958 in Mannargudi. He did his schooling in Hindu High School at Triplicane. He passed B.Sc from Vivekananda College in Chennai and completed his LL.B. from Madras Law College.
enrolled as a Member of the Bar on February 16, 1983. He practised in High Court of Madras, City and Small Causes Court, State Consumer Commission and District Consumer Forum, Central and State Administrative Tribunals, Chennai. He mainly practised in Civil and Constitutional matters and specialized in service matters.
He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court on 31-07-2006 and became permanent Judge on 9-11-2009. He continued to serve in the Madras High Court until 2016, when he was transferred to the common High Court for Andhra Pradesh & Telangana.
Justice Ramasubramanian was elevated as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court on 22-06-2019. He relinquished the charge on 23-09-2019 on being elevated as a Judge of Supreme Court of India. Justice Ramasubramanian retired from Supreme Court in 2023.
Justice Ramasubramanian has made immense contribution to Tamil language. He has authored a book in Tamil on the principles of law and justice in Kamba Ramayana (Kambanil Sattamum Neethiyum). He also wrote a series of articles under the caption “Beyond science” (Ariviyalukku Appaal) in a Tamil newspaper for 27 weeks. Justice Ramasubramanian added new vocabulary to the language of Tamil by running a column in a Tamil newspaper under the caption “Sol Vettai” for 50 weeks on the same lines as Barbara Walraff ran a column for Atlantic Times under the caption “Word Court and Word Fugitives.”
Source: Press
