Justice Rajesh Shukla sworn-in as new Gujarat Lokayukta

    Ahmedabad, Jun 23 (PTI) Retired Gujarat High Court
Judge Justice Rajesh Shukla was on Tuesday sworn-in as the
fifth Lokayukta of the state by Governor Acharya Devvrat.
    The post of the state anti-corruption ombudsman was
lying vacant since the retirement of Lokayukta D P Buch in
December 2018.
    Justice Shukla was sworn-in as the new Lokayukta by
the Governor in the presence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani,
Assembly Speaker Rajendra Trivedi, cabinet ministers and
senior bureaucrats at a function held at the Raj Bhavan in
Gandhinagar.
    Born in 1956, Justice Shukla was elevated as
Additional Judge of the High Court of Gujarat on November 21,
2007 and appointed as a permanent Judge on May 21, 2009.
    He retired from the service at the Gujarat HC on
December 16 last year.
    The Lokayukta investigates allegations against public
functionaries such as the chief minister, deputy CM,
ministers, chairman of a government company and vice-
chancellor of a university, among others. PTI KA PD
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