NEW DELHI, March 20 -- The Indian government, at the end of its current tenure in office, has appointed a retired judge of the Supreme Court as its first anti-corruption watchdog.
Pinaki Chandra Ghose, a retired Supreme Court judge who has worked with the National Human Rights Commission, was appointed as India's first 'Lokpal' or anti-corruption ombudsman, an official communique from the President's office, Rashtrapati Bhavan, said late on Tuesday.
He will head a panel established by order of the Supreme Court which sought to know why the Indian government had not appointed such an authority to oversee allegations of corruption in government.
The appointment of an anti-corruption watchdog was a promise the current government had made wh...