Former Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra has been appointed as the Ombudsman for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)..As per the details available on BCCI website, Justice Mishra will also serve as the BCCI Ethics Officer.After his retirement from Supreme Court, Justice Mishra had served as the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). He retired from the post last year..Justice Arun Mishra enrolled as a lawyer in 1978. He was elected youngest chairperson of Bar Council of India in 1998-99. He was appointed judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court in October 1999.He later served as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court and Calcutta High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court on July 7, 2014.He retired from the Supreme Court on September 3, 2020.His tenure at the Supreme Court was marked by various controversies, prominent being the Judge Loya case and the Prashant Bhushan contempt of court case.He was initially slated to hear the case seeking probe into death of judge BH Loya but the assignment of the case to Justice Mishra led to a press conference by four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court. He eventually recused from the matter..In a statement made outside court, that caused quite the furore, Justice Mishra lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the International Judicial Conference held in February 2020. The Bar found the remark to be inappropriate, sparking debates on the independence of the judiciary.
