Centre appoints two members to Securities Appellate Tribunal

Mumbai: The Centre on Friday appointed retired justice PS Dinesh Kumar as the presiding officer of the Securities Appellate Tribunal for four years..

Justice Dheeraj Bhatnagar, retired principal chief commissioner of income tax, has been appointed technical member, said a gazette notification by the ministry of finance. ..

In January, Kumar was appointed acting chief justice of the Karnataka high court, but soon became the chief justice of the court..

He has served as the standing counsel in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and senior standing counsel for BSNL, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Counsel for Technical Education (AICTE), and National Counsel for Teacher Education (NCTE)..