Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Former Chief Justice
The correct answer is Former Chief Justice. - The Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission is always a Former Chief Justice of India.
- Justice Shri H.L. Dattu, former Chief Justice of India joined as the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India on the 29th February 2016.
- He is the seventh Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission.
- On the 28th of September 2014, he was appointed the Chief Justice of India and retired on the 2nd of December 2015.
- Justice Dattu headed the bench that acquitted 11 persons charged under terror laws telling the Gujarat police that no innocent person should be branded a terrorist.
- Number of Members in the National Human Rights Commission - The National Commission shall consist of not less than four members and not more than eleven members and at least one of them shall be a woman.
- The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India is a Statutory public body constituted on 12 October 1993 under the Protection of Human Rights Ordinance of 28 September 1993.
- The Headquarters of the National Human Rights Commission is Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi, India.
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