Bangalore, October 2: Moosa Kunhi Nayarmoole has been appointed as the lone judicial member of the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) by the honourable President of India Pratibha Patil.
Mr. Moosa Kunhi, originally from Manila village of Bantwal taluk, was serving as the additional registrar of the Lokayukta since 2009. He has also served in various capacities in the judiciary for the past several decades.
61-year-old Moosa Kunhi is the son of Haji Moidin Kutti and Fathima Hajuma. He completed his primary education from Pakalakunja higher primary school and highschool education from Paivalike government highschool. Subsequently he joined Vivekananda college, Puttur, where he completed his BSc.
Then he joined law college in Udupi and stood sixth in the examination conducted by the Mysore University. He served as a lawyer in Mangalore first as an assistant of late T. Yusuf Haidar and then as a deputy of M. Seetharam Shetty.
In 1983 he entered the judiciary as the Munsif and first class magistrate. In 1992 he was promoted as civil judge and principal magistrate. In 2000, he became the district civil judge.
He has also served as the city civil and sessions judge, chairman of Karnataka Wakf tribunal, additional director of the Karnataka Judicial Academy, chief secretary to the chief justice of the High Court, additional secretary of the state law department before joining Lokayukta institution as the additional registrar of the investigation department.
Mr. Moosa Kunhi is the first judge to become the Judicial Member of KAT promoted from a district judge rank. Hitherto this position had been reserved for the judges of the High Court.
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