Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna (born 21 May 1941) is an Indian jurist and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.
[5] In 1967, Srikrishna entered private practice in the Bombay High Court,[6] specialising in labour and industrial law.
[citation needed] He is leading the effort to draft new data privacy-laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from US and elsewhere will operate in the country.
Srikrishna plans to navigate a "middle path" between the laissez-faire US approach and the stringent GDPR just imposed in Europe.
The riots were mainly due to escalations of hostilities after large scale protests (which were initially peaceful, but eventually turned violent) by Muslims in reaction to the 1992 Babri Masjid Demolition By Hindu Karsevaks in Ayodhya.
Srikrishna, then a relatively junior judge of the Bombay High Court, accepted the uphill task of investigating the causes of the riots, something that many of his colleagues had turned down.
[7] The commission was disbanded by the Shiv Sena-led government in January 1996 and on public opposition was later reconssions[clarification needed] of Inquiry Act.
He was invited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to Geneva for a seminar on New Forms of Persecution in 2000, and on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural rights to New Delhi in 2001.
The ten-member committee was headed by Supreme Court Judge (retired) Justice B N Srikrishna and included members from government, academia, and industries.