<span style="color: #222222;">President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday administered the oath of office to the former Supreme Court judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose as Lokpal chairperson.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The oath was administered at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Justice Ghose, the former Supreme Court judge, was on March 19 appointed as the country's first Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">President also appointed four Judicial members and four Non-Judicial members in Lokpal. Former Chief Justices – Dilip B. Bhosale, Pradip Kumar Mohanty, and Abhilasha Kumari and sitting Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court Ajay Kumar Tripathi – have been appointed as judicial members.&nbsp;</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The non-judicial members are former first woman Chief of Sashastra Seema Bal Archana Ramasundaram, ex-Maharashtra Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain, former IRS officer Mahender Singh and ex-IAS officer Indrajeet Prasad Gautam.&nbsp;</span>
News On AIR | March 23, 2019 9:12 PM
Former SC judge PC Ghose takes oath as Lokpal