Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan (12 June 1932 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian jurist and lawyer, who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India from 1994 to 1997,[1] and was known for his landmark judgements regarding the devaswom boards in Kerala.
Paripoornan graduated with a law degree from Madras Law College, and working in his father's practice, enrolled as an advocate in the High Court of Travancore-Cochin in June 1956.
[2] In 2007, Justice Paripoornan was appointed head of a special commission looking into the revenue arrangements of the devaswom boards in Kerala, following allegations of corruption and malpractice in the Travancore Devaswom Board and its management of temples in Kerala.
Paripoornan was critical of the board's political appointments and requested that the government require minimum educational and qualification standards for appointment to the administration of the temples.
[2] Paripoornan died at the age of 83 at a private hospital in Kochi on 3 February 2016 from multiple organ failure.