Former Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Bhushan on Monday took over as the chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.
NCLAT has got a permanent head after a gap of almost 20 months following the retirement of its first Chairperson Justice S J Mukhopadhaya.
Last Month, the Appointments Committee of Cabinet had approved Justice Bhushan’s name as NCLAT Chairperson for a tenure of four years.
Justice Mukhopadhaya retired on March 14, 2020, and since then NCLAT had been functioning with Acting Chairpersons.
In the last 20 months, NCLAT had three Acting Chairpersons, with two of them getting several extensions.
Justice Bhushan had retired from the Supreme Court on July 4, where he had led the bench that was monitoring the COVID-19 management and relief throughout the pandemic days.
He was also a part of the five-judge bench that had delivered the verdict in the Ayodhya case.
Prior to that, Justice Bhushan was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Kerala. He was elevated as permanent Judge of the Allahabad High Court on April 24, 2001.