{"id":35992,"date":"2014-11-27T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=35992"},"modified":"2014-11-27T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T10:52:08","slug":"justice-ck-prasad-assumes-charge-new-pci-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/justice-ck-prasad-assumes-charge-new-pci-chief","title":{"rendered":"Justice CK Prasad assumes charge as new PCI chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/justice-ck-prasad-assumes-charge-new-pci-chief\/justice-ck-prasad\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?fit=267%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"267,189\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Justice CK Prasad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?fit=267%2C189&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35993\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?resize=267%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Justice CK Prasad\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?w=267&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/11\/Justice-CK-Prasad.png?resize=150%2C106&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>Retired Supreme Court judge, Justice CK\u00a0Prasad, Thursday assumed charge as the chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/tags\/press-council-india.html\">Press Council of India<\/a> (PCI), an official statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice C.K. Prasad who retired as the judge of the Supreme Court of India July 14, 2014 assumed charge today (Thursday) as chairman, Press Council of India,&#8221; said the PCI statement here.<\/p>\n<p>It added that he was appointed on being nominated by a committee comprising Vice President Hamid Ansari, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and S.N. Sinha, Press Council nominee on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>He was elevated to the Supreme Court Feb 8, 2010 having held the office of judge\/chief justice of various high courts since November 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Prasad succeeds Justice Markandey Katju who was appointed as PCI chairman Oct 5, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Supreme Court judge, Justice CK\u00a0Prasad, Thursday assumed charge as the chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI), an official statement said. &#8220;Justice C.K. 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