AMN
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday administered the oath of office to the former Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose as Lokpal chairperson.
The oath was administered at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Justice Ghose, the former Supreme Court judge, was on March 19 appointed as the country’s first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman.
President also appointed four Judicial members and four Non-Judicial members in Lokpal. Former Chief Justices – Dilip B. Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty, and Abhilasha Kumari and sitting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Ajay Kumar Tripathi – have been appointed as judicial members.
The non-judicial members are former first woman Chief of Sashastra Seema Bal Archana Ramasundaram, ex-Maharashtra Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain, former IRS officer Mahender Singh and ex-IAS officer Indrajeet Prasad Gautam.