Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Shivaraj V Patil, was appointed the new Lokayukta of Karnataka on Tuesday to succeed Santosh Hegde.
Governor H R Bhardwaj has cleared the name of Justice Patil, who had earlier served as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court as well as Acting Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Raj Bhavan sources said.
71-year-old Justice Patil, who hails from Karnataka, replaces Justice Hegde, a former Supreme Court judge who completes his term on August two.
Justice Patil also served as the one-man committee that went into the processes and procedures followed by the Department of Telecommunications in the allocation of licences and spectrum between 2001 and 2009.
