Born on 13/09/1960. Practised in the Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur and Jaipur, Central Administrative Tribunal, Jaipur and initially in Supreme Court in Constitutional, Civil, Service, Labour, Criminal and Arbitration matters and specialised in Constitutional, Service, Labour & Arbitration matters. Was standing Counsel for Railways; Rajasthan Road Transport Corporation; Nuclear Power Corporation; State Election Commission; Rajasthan University; all Government Electricity Companies of Rajasthan; Jaipur Development Authority; Jaipur Municipal Corporation; Rajasthan Housing Board; Ganga Nagar Sugar Mills Ltd.; Rajasthan Agricultural University. Appointed as Judge of the High Court of Rajasthan High Court on July 5, 2007. Transferred to Allahabad High Court and took oath as Judge on March 15, 2019. Remained the Acting Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court from June 26, 2021 upto to Oct 10, 2021. He was also appointed as Chairman of U.P. State Legal Service Authority. Transferred to Madras High Court and took oath as Judge on November, 22nd 2021.

Performed the duties of the office of the Chief Justice from 22.11.2021 to 13.02.2022. Appointed as Chief Justice on 10.02.2022 and assumed the office of Chief Justice on 14.02.2022. Remained Chancellor of Tamil Nadu National Law University at Trichy. Appointed as Chairman Appellate Tribunal SAFEMA and PMLA on 08/09/2022 by the President of India.

An officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax), 1988 batch, Mr. V. Anandarajan superannuated from service as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax in January 2022. He holds a graduate degree in law from the University of Delhi and has extensive experience in adjudication under direct tax laws. He also gained valuable experience in legislative drafting while working in the Tax Policy and Legislation wing of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) where he was associated with the drafting of the Black Money Bill, 2015, the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Bill, 2016, annual Finance Bills, as well framing of subordinate legislation and formulation of direct tax policy. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Apart from tax administration and formulation of tax policy, Mr. Anandarajan has had rich and varied deputation experience in India and abroad, which includes stints in the Prime Minister’s Office and as a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Defence. He also served in the global headquarters of the World Bank in Washington DC on foreign deputation for over three years. Early in his career, he also served as Assistant Director (Intelligence & Investigation) at the headquarters of the Narcotics Control Bureau for four years. He joined as a Member of the Appellate Tribunal on the 25th of July, 2022.

Shri Balesh Kumar joined as Member of the Appellate Tribunal on 1st September, 2022 after completion of 36 years of the Government service. He has rich experience of policy formulation and implementation, particularly, in the fields of indirect taxation, enforcement and human resource development.

Shri Balesh Kumar has been responsible for setting up of anti-smuggling formation on the Indo-Pak border of Rajasthan in 1989. He introduced risk management techniques for passenger facilitation at the International Airports with the on-set of economic liberalization. He has set-up Dedicated Courier-cum-Express Terminal at Delhi Airport in 2003. He significantly contributed in the restructuring of the Enforcement Directorate and made useful contribution for successful completion of Mutual Evaluation of India’s Money Laundering Regime by the FATF, which culminated in the grant of membership of FATF to India in June 2010. India was nominated as Co-chair of Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering/Terror Funding. The Plenary of the Group in July 2011 at Kochi, attended by over 300 foreign delegates, was organized by Shri Kumar. He held the position of Co-chair of Asia-Pacific Group on Typology of Money Laundering and Terror Funding from 2011 to 2014. As part of his endeavours on human resource development, Shri Kumar not only restructured the Enforcement Directorate, but also re-organized the field formations of Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs for efficient implementation of GST in 2017. He was responsible for smoothening of cadre management of the personnel under Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs. His specialization in collection of intelligence and conducting of investigation have led to pioneering techniques in both the fields so as to bring about effective results.

Shri Balesh Kumar has held, as Indian Revenue Service officer (Customs & Indirect Taxes), positions of Principal Director General of Directorate General of Revenue Intelligence, Director General of Directorate of Human Resource Management and Director General (North) of Directorate General of GST Intelligence. He has also done secondment postings as Special Director of Enforcement Directorate, Consul (Economic) in Consulate General of India in Dubai, Private Secretary to Minister of State for External Affairs and Deputy Secretary in Union Public Service Commission. During his tenure in these organisations, he was associated with certain critical amendments in PMLA, promotion of trade between India and UAE, policy formulations and establishment matters.

To the credit of Shri Kumar are two international publications, which he co-authored namely, “Trade Based Money Laundering” and “Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing and Risk Vulnerability Associated with Gold”. The Magazine “The Economist” cited the work of Shri Kumar on trade-based money laundering in its issue of 3rd May, 2014. Shri Balesh Kumar was awarded the President of India medal for Specially Distinguished Service on the eve of the Republic Day 2004. For his Narcotics Interdiction Programme launched by him at Delhi Airport, he was also given NCB Commendation Certificates in June 1995.

He superannuated as Member of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC) on 31st August, 2022. He did his graduation and post-graduation in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Delhi School of Economics respectively. Thereafter, he did his LLB from Delhi University. He completed his schooling from St. Columba’s School, New Delhi.

Born on 20.11.1962 at Delhi, Sh. Rajesh Malhotra did his graduation in B.Sc. in 1983 and LL.B. in 1986, from University of Delhi. He worked as Advocate from 1986 to 1998. Thereafter, he joined as Public Prosecutor in Central Bureau of Investigation in May, 1998 and again directly recruited as Senior Public Prosecutor in CBI, in March, 2004. He joined as Additional District & Sessions Judge, in Haryana Superior Judicial Service, in June, 2008 and designated as District & Sessions Judge, in August, 2020. He took voluntary retirement from Judicial Service on 6.05.2022 to join as Presiding Officer, Debts Recovery Tribunal-II, Delhi. He served in DRT-II, Delhi, up-to 31.10.2022. He joined as Member of this Appellate Tribunal on 1.11.2022.

During his career as Advocate, Prosecutor CBI and thereafter as Judicial Officer, he has conducted variety of Civil, Criminal, Matrimonial, Land Acquisition & Claim cases. He has vast experience in dealing with Economic Offences, Bank Frauds, NDPS, Imports & Exports, Food Adulteration, Drugs Act, Prevention of Corruption Act etc.

He received many Rewards and Commendation Letters, while working as Prosecutor in CBI. He is known for timely deciding the old, sensitive and urgent matters and regularly maintained high disposal of cases, while working as Judicial Officer. He also got appreciation letters from Ministry of Finance for achieving high disposal rate, while working as Presiding Officer, in DRT-II, Delhi.