{"id":310769,"date":"2019-03-23T06:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T06:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310769"},"modified":"2019-03-23T06:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T06:22:07","slug":"justice-pinaki-chandra-ghose-takes-oath-as-indias-first-lokpal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/justice-pinaki-chandra-ghose-takes-oath-as-indias-first-lokpal\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose takes oath as India&#8217;s first Lokpal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310770 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/justice-pinaki.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose on Saturday took oath as the first Lokpal of India in the presence of President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Justice Ghose as Lokpal chairperson at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Justice Ghose retired as a Supreme Court judge in 2017. He was on March 19 appointed as the country\u2019s first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose on Saturday took oath as the first Lokpal of India in the presence of President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath of office to Justice Ghose as Lokpal chairperson at a ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11183,11182,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310771,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310769\/revisions\/310771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}