In 2013 the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, consisting of Chief Justice Chellur and Justice Vinod Chandran, ordered the state government to submit a statement regarding the high-profile rape case against the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, P. J. Kurien.
In 1978 he was appointed Director of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, a national centre for social science research, holding this position for ten year.