Prafulla Kumar Mishra

Mishra was born in 1947. His father, late Jaya Krishna Mishra was also a judge. He passed LL.B. with gold medal from the Utkal University in 1968.^[1] Mishra became the additional judge of Orissa High Court on 17 January 1996. In 2001 he was transferred to the Madras High Court.^[2] On 12 August 2009 he was elevated in the post of the Chief Justice of Patna High Court.^[3] Justice Mishra was retired on 16 September 2009 from the Judgeship.^[4] After the retirement he became the first Chairman of Goa Human Rights Commission.^[5] In April 2016 Mishra was appointed as Goa Lokayukta after Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy.^[6][7]