Two years and four months after the Ministry of Law and Justice notified the constitution of the 22nd Law Commission of India, the advisory body on legal reforms is functioning without a Chairperson.
The Commission, constituted for a term of three years, has not released any report after the tenure of the last Chairperson, Justice B.S. Chauhan, ended in August 2018.
Speaking on the implications of a headless Law Commission, former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B. Lokur told The Hindu, “It is very unfortunate that the Law Commission has become more or less defunct”.
