Short Biography of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer – Justice Krishna Iyer practiced law and defended peasants and workers who were justly exploited by the Zamindars with the support of the colonial regime.
In the neural elections in 1956 he was elected initially to the Madras Legislative Assembly and later after reorganisation of States to the Legislative Assembly of Kerala; he was chosen as Minister and held important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation.
Justice Krishna Iyer shifted from ministerial post to judicial posts and worked as a member of the Law Commission of India.
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The Report of the Expert Committee on Legal Aid commissioned by the Indian Government under his Chairmanship is the foundation of all legal aid developments in the country. Later, he became a Judge in the Supreme Court of India.
He was judge in case of Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narayan. It was his judgment that declined judicial solace to Indira Gandhi after Allahabad High Court had convicted her for election malpractice that led to the imposition of emergency in 1975.