Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (born 3 December 1950) is a former Chief Justice of India,[1] and the former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission.

[3][4][5][6] Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was born in Chikkapattanagere village in Chikmagalur district of Mysore State (present-day Karnataka).

Thereafter, on 12 February 2007; he was elevated as Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court.

Justice Katju has taken up the issue in his blog posts, where he called for Dattu's impeachment on charges of corruption.

[13][14] Dattu was also involved in controversy after he asked for the names of whistleblowers to be revealed in the 2G spectrum case.