Gopal Krishna Pillai

Gopal Krishna Pillai
Ministry of Home Affairs (India)#Senior_administrative
In office June 30, 2009 - June 30, 2011
Preceded by	Madhukar Gupta
Succeeded by	Raj Kumar Singh
Personal details
Born	30th Nov, 1949 Kerala
Spouse(s)	Sudha Pillai
Occupation	Civil Servant (Indian Administrative Service)

Gopal Krishna Pillai or G. K. Pillai (born 30th Nov, 1949) is an Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S) officer and the former Home Secretary of India. He studied at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore, and later obtained an M.Sc from IIT, Madras. He belongs to the Kerala cadre of the 1972 batch of I.A.S. Pillai held diverse positions in the state government of Kerala such as:

In February 2016, Pillai claimed to media that there was political interference in the controversial Ishrat Jahan case.

Pillai's claims were corraborated by another former official in March 2016, bringing the Ishrat Jahan case into media spotlight once again.

3. "An exclusive interview with G K Pillai, Ex-Home Secretary of India". BUREAUCRACY INDIA, Retrieved 2011-06-30

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