New Delhi, Dec 30: Justice V Ramasubramanian, former Judge of the Supreme Court today assumed the charge of the Chairperson and Justice (Dr.) Vidyut Ranjan Sarangi as the Member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
Vijaya Bharathi Sayani, Acting Chairperson, Secretary General, Bharat Lal and other senior officers and staff of the Commission were present on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering, Justice V. Ramasubramanian highlighted India’s ancient tradition of valuing and practising human rights, even before the concept became globally recognized. Citing the Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar, he emphasized that human rights are deeply embedded in India’s cultural fabric. He also stressed that promoting and protecting human rights requires a collaborative effort among various stakeholders.
Born on June 30, 1958, in Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu, Justice V. Ramasubramanian is a distinguished former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai, and later pursued law at the Madras Law College. He was enrolled as a member of the Bar on February 16, 1983, and practised for 23 years in the Madras High Court. Justice Ramasubramanian served as an Additional Judge of the Madras High Court in 2006 and was made a permanent judge in 2009. He was transferred to the High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in 2016, and after bifurcation, continued his tenure in the Telangana High Court.
In 2019, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court and, later that year, became a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, after authoring 102 judgments, including in landmark cases such as the 2016 Demonetization policy and matters involving the validity of circumstantial evidence in bribery cases.
