The Central Government has constituted the twenty second Law Commission of India with former Karnataka High Court Chief Justice Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi as its Chairperson. The Centre has additionally appointed former Kerala High Court decide Justice KT Sankaran,Prof. Anand Paliwal, Prof. DP Verma, Prof.(Dr) Raka Arya and Shri M. Karunanithi as members of the Commission.

The Law Commission of India had been remaining vacant since August 31, 2018, after the retirement of the Chairperson of the twenty first Commission, former Supreme Court decide Justice BS Chauhan.

Justice Awasthi was a decide of the Allahabad High Court and retired on July 3, 2022 because the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. He had presided over the Full Bench of the High Court which upheld the ban on sporting hijab by Muslim women in Government faculties in Karnataka.

Justice KT Sankaran was a decide of the Kerala High Court from February 2005 to December 2016. In 2009, Justice Sankaran had created an issue by propounding the idea of “love jihad” for the primary time within the nation. Later, one other bench of the High Court held that there was no proof to substantiate the allegations of “love jihad”.

A PIL is pending within the Supreme Court towards the delay in constituting the Law Commission. Recently, the Centre told the Supreme Court that the problem of Uniform Civil Code shall be positioned earlier than the Law Commission of India as quickly as it’s constituted.