Hyderabad: Telangana Governor Tamilisai appointed Justice C. V. Ramulu as the Chairman of Lokayukta on Wednesday. G. Chandraiah was appointed as State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and V. Niranjan Rao will be the Upa-Lokayukta.

   Earlier Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandra Sekhar Rao held a meeting the Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Legislative Council Chairman G. Sukender Reddy, Home Minister Mahmood Ali and MIM senior leader and MLC Ahmed Pasha Quadri and Syed Ameen Hasan Jaffri before taking a decision to appoint the former Judges to head the two institutions. According to the Chief Minister’s Office the state Government forwarded the file relating to the appointment of Justices Ramulu and Chandraiah to the Governor.

    Along with G. Chandraiah as Chairman of SHRC N. Anand Rao and Mohammed Irfan Moinuddin will be the members of SHRC. This is the first time the state Government constituted the Lokayukta and Human Rights Commission since the state was formed in 2014. Telangana High Court had set a deadline for making these appointments.

   Justice C.V. Ramulu, native of Achanapalli village of Bodhan Town in Nizamabad district. He passed his LLB in 1978 with distinction from the Marathwada University, Aurangabad. He was sworn-in-as Additional Judge of Andhra Pradesh on December 2^nd, 2002.   Justice Chandraiah was born in May 10, 1954 in an agriculture family in Timmapur village of Adilabad district. He completed LLB, LLM and MA (political science) from Osmania University. He enrolled as an advocate of AP on November 6^th 1980. He served as Additional Judge of the AP High Court on May 26^th, 2005 and became a permanent Judge on February 20^th, 2006. He retired as Judge of High Court on April 29^th, 2016.