Panel postpones meeting to choose Human Rights Commission

BANGALORE: The selection panel headed by cheif minister Jagadish Shettar to choose new chairperson and members of Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) met at his home office, Krishna and decided to finalize the composition of Commission on August 21.
The panel involves home minister R Ashoka, opposition leader in the legislative assembly Siddaramaiah and presiding officers of the Houses of legislature.
As many as 14 retired bureaucrats and 7 advocates are fighting for one post of member at the KSHRC. The Commission now is headless as the term of chairperson S R Nayak and members have ended. Besides chairperson, the Commission has two members - one being a retired judge of a district court and other from human rights field. The selection panel comprising chief minister, opposition leaders in the legislative assembly, home minister and presiding officers of legislature has scheduled to meet on August 14 to choose the new body for the commission. Interestingly, law and human rights minister has been kept out of the selection panel.
According to sources in the law secretariat, retired babus -- G M Dhananjaya, P Ganeshan, K G Gopalakrishne Gowda, S M Jamdar, G V Kongawad, Meera Saxena, T Y Nayaz Ahmed, C N Seetharam, D Venkateshwara Rao, Shankar Patil, M V Murthy, K V Ravindranath Tagore and G K Bore Gowda have applied for one of the member's post.
For other member's post, to be filled from retired district judge, names of Anand R Deshpande, Basavaraja Shivappa Tadahal, H M Bharathesh, R Chandrashekarappa, K D Deshpande, C G Hunagund, K H Malleshappa, S H Mittalkod, S M Shivannagoudar and S Siddalingesh.
Shettar as rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) minister had recommended the government to consider names of Hunagund & Tagore for members post.
The government has shortlisted names of former Chief Justices of Karnataka High Court Cyriac Joseph and N K Sodhi, former CJ of Kerala High Court S R Bannurmath, former CJ of Bombay High Court M B Shah and former Supreme Court Justice R V Raveendran for Commission chairperson's post.