Prafulla Kumar Mishra or P. K. Misra (born 17 September 1947) is an Indian Judge, former Chief Justice of Patna High Court and present Lokayukta for

Goa Goa (; ; ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north, and Karnataka to the ...

Career

Mishra was born in 1947. His father, late Jaya Krishna Mishra was also a judge. He passed LL.B. with gold medal from the

Utkal University Utkal University (UU) is a public university in Bhubaneswar, Khordha, Odisha, and is the oldest university in the state, and the 17th-oldest university in India. The university was established in 1943 and was operating from Ravenshaw College ...

in 1968. Mishra became the additional judge of

Orissa High Court The Orissa High Court is the High Courts of India, High Court for the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Odisha. The then Bengal Presidency was a vast province including present day Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West ...

on 17 January 1996. In 2001 he was transferred to the

Madras High Court The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Courts of India, High Court located in Chennai, India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. It is one of ...

. On 12 August 2009 he was elevated in the post of the Chief Justice of

Patna High Court The Patna High Court of Judicature at Patna (commonly known as Patna High Court) is the High Courts of India, High Court of the Indian state, state of Bihar. It was established on 3 February 1916 by British colonial government and was later aff ...

. Justice Mishra was retired on 16 September 2009 from the Judgeship. After the retirement he became the first Chairman of

Goa Human Rights Commission The Goa Human Rights Commission was constituted in the month of March 2011 to perform the functions assigned to the State Commission under Chapter V of the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993. The current Chairman of the Commission is Justice Ut ...

. In April 2016 Mishra was appointed as

Goa Lokayukta The Goa Lokayukta is the ombudsman institution of the Indian state of Goa. The Lokayukta is an anti-corruption ombudsman existing in several states of India. Justice (Retired) Ambadas Joshi is the Lokayukta of Goa since 7 May 2021. Backgroun ...

after Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy.

References

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