N. Venkatachala

N. Venkatachala
N. Venkatachala
Born July 3, 1930 (1930-07-03) (age 81)
Mittur village, Mulabagal taluk, Kolar district, Karnataka
Nationality India
Education Bachelor of Law from Mysore university
Occupation Lawyer
Title LokAyukta

Nanje Gowda Venkatachala (Kannada: ನಂಜೇಗೌಡ ವೆಂಕಟಾಚಲ)(born July 3, 1930) is retired judge of the Supreme court of India and former Lokayukta of state of Karnataka. He was popular for his approach of taking action in each and every case he caught, many times red-handed by personally leading the raid while he was serving as Lokayukta. He became the first of the four Lokayuktas to take the oath of office and secrecy in Kannada language with the Governor also administering the oath in Kannada.[1]

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Early life

N. Venkatachala was born in Mittur village of Mulabagal taluk in Kolar district in a respectable agriculturist's family. After completing his schooling from Mulbagal and Kolara he moved to Bengaluru to pursue his college education. He obtained Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Law degrees from Mysore University.[2] He is married to Anasuya.

Career

Venkatachala enrolled as an Advocate in the then High Court of Mysore on 16 November, 1955. He served as a part-time reader in Mercantile Law from 1958 to 1970 and a legal adviser to the University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal from 1963 to 1973 and Bangalore University from 1970 to 1973. He was elected as high Court government pleader in 1968 and continued in that position till 1973 and when he was promoted to high court government advocate which he served till 1977. He was appointed as additional judge for Karnataka High Court on 28 November, 1977 and a permanent judge on 8 September, 1978. He functioned as a tribunal for prevention of unlawful activities under the unlawful activities prevention act during the year 1990. He was appointed as the acting Chief Justice for Karnataka High Court in May, 1992. On July 1, 1992 he was sworn in as Judge of the Supreme Court of India which he remained until Jul2 2, 1995.[2]

Lokayukta

Venkatachala is best known for rejuvenating the department of Karnataka LokAyukta, the anti corruption agency.[3] He was sworn in as the Lokayukta on July 2, 2001.[1] He is said to have put the fear of god in the Karnataka administration. Number of complaints the office of Lokayukta was receiving dramatically increased from 20-25 per day to 200-250 per day while Venkatachala was in tenure.[1] He personally led hundreds of raids often lashing out at corruption in political life.[3] In his four and a half years in office, he had looked into more than 50,000 cases of misconduct and complaints from members of the public.[4] He even drew lot of criticism often from politicians who accused him of tarnishing all politicians with the same brush.[3] He was discontinued as Lokayukta for the second term because of legal hurdles although a huge campaign was done in favor of him.[5] Owing to his popularity he was featured in a Kannada film Lancha Samrajya as an officer fighting the corruption.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c "Lokayukta". Online website of Karnataka.com. Karnataka.com. http://www.karnataka.com/govt/corruption/lokayukta.shtml. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 
  2. ^ a b "N.Venkatachala". Official website of Supreme court of India. Supreme court of India. http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/bio/nvenkatachala.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 
  3. ^ a b c "Lokayukta in action". Online webpage of The Hindu. The Hindu. http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2216/stories/20050812002303700.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 
  4. ^ "Lokayukta Venkatachala ready to serve another term". Online webpage of The Hindu (Chennai, India: The Hindu). 2006-04-20. http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/20/stories/2006042011950400.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 
  5. ^ "Campaign for Venkatachala's reappointment continues". Online webpage of The Hindu (Chennai, India: The Hindu). 2006-07-04. http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/04/stories/2006070406010500.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 
  6. ^ Prakash, Rakesh (2006-11-23). "Venkatachala in and as Ayukta". Online webpage of The Times of India (The Times of India). http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/548115.cms. Retrieved 2007-07-16. 

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