Government announced that the former SC judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose will be India's first Lokpal. Justice Ghose, who retired from the Supreme Court in May 2017, is presently a member of the NRC. He has practised in civil, commercial, arbitration, constitutional and company matters both in the original side and appellate side at Calcutta HC.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/former-sc-judge-pc-ghose-to-be-indias-first-lokpal/articleshow/68450115.cms