Who is not the ex officio member of the National Human Rights Commission?

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Correct — B, the Chairperson of the Law Commission of India. Under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 the NHRC has certain deemed (ex officio) members — the Chairpersons of the national commissions that protect specific vulnerable groups. In the scheme this question is set on, those were the Chairpersons of the National Commission for Minorities, the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and the National Commission for Women. The Law Commission of India is a law-reform advisory body, not a rights-redress commission, and its Chairperson has never sat on the NHRC ex officio.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This chairperson is a deemed (ex officio) member of the NHRC, so it cannot be the odd one out.  (c) This chairperson is a deemed (ex officio) member of the NHRC (later, after the SC and ST commissions were split, both chairpersons), so it is not the answer.  (d) This chairperson is a deemed (ex officio) member of the NHRC, so it cannot be the odd one out.

Concept: The NHRC is made up of a Chairperson (a person who has been Chief Justice or a Judge of the Supreme Court) plus full-time Members, together with several deemed (ex officio) members — the chairpersons of other national rights commissions. The idea is to knit the specialised commissions (Minorities, SCs and STs, Women, and later Backward Classes, Child Rights and Persons with Disabilities) into the apex human-rights body.

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