{"id":30622,"date":"2013-10-26T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30622"},"modified":"2013-10-26T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T10:56:55","slug":"retired-judge-appointed-uttar-pradesh-human-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/retired-judge-appointed-uttar-pradesh-human-rights-chief","title":{"rendered":"Retired judge appointed Uttar Pradesh human rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30623\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/retired-judge-appointed-uttar-pradesh-human-rights-chief\/justice-tarun-chaterjee\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?fit=202%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"202,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Justice Tarun Chaterjee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?fit=202%2C250&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30623\" alt=\"Justice Tarun Chaterjee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?resize=202%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?w=202&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/Justice-Tarun-Chaterjee.jpg?resize=121%2C150&amp;ssl=1 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed late Friday retired Justice Tarun Chaterjee as the new chairman of the state Human Rights Commission, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>68-year-old Chaterjee was the chief justice at the Allahabad high court in 2003 and retired as a Supreme Court judge in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The name of Chaterjee was cleared by a high-powered committee comprising chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, leader of opposition in both houses Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Swamy Prasad Maurya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justice U.K.Dhawan and Asha Tiwari have been named as members of the commission, an official release said<\/p>\n<p>(Source:IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed late Friday retired Justice Tarun Chaterjee as the new chairman of the state Human Rights Commission, an official said. &nbsp; 68-year-old Chaterjee was the chief justice at the Allahabad high court in 2003 and retired as a Supreme Court judge in 2010. &nbsp; The name of Chaterjee was cleared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[26778,26777,26776],"class_list":["post-30622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-justice-tarun-chaterjee-as-the-new-chairman-of-the-state-human-rights-commission","tag-retired-justice-tarun-chaterjee","tag-uttar-pradesh-human-rights-chief"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Retired judge appointed Uttar Pradesh human rights chief - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed late Friday retired Justice Tarun Chaterjee as the new chairman of the state Human Rights Commission, an - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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