{"id":47,"date":"2005-06-07T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/06\/07\/justice-ranjit-singh-narula-passes-a"},"modified":"2005-06-07T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T02:30:10","slug":"justice-ranjit-singh-narula-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2005\/06\/07\/justice-ranjit-singh-narula-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Ranjit Singh Narula passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a417'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">On June 1, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tribuneindia.com\/2005\/20050601\/main8.htm\">Justice Ranjit Singh Narula<\/A>, former Supreme Court of India judge and <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice, passed away. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Justice Narula was on the Citizen&#8217;s Justice Committee when the <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">government appointed the Mishra Commission to investigate the 1984 pogroms. The <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Committee was composed of, among others, Justice Narula, Soli Sorabjee, General JS Aurora, and Justice <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Tarkunde. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">When it appeared that Justice Mishra would ignore all affidavits filed in the case, <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">the Citizen&#8217;s Justice Committee withdrew from the commission. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">After looking into allegations against politicians Sajjan Kumar and HKL Bhagat for their role in the 1984 pogroms, the government appointed the Narula Advisory Committee in 1994 to &#8220;review the status&#8221; of the recommendations made by former commissions appointed to investigate the 1984 pogroms. These commissions include the Potti-Rosha, the Kapur-Mittal, and the Jain-Aggarwal commissions. Justice Narula specifically highlighted the repeated failure by police to take action against Bhagat and Kumar. <\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, Justice Ranjit Singh Narula, former Supreme Court of India judge and former Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice, passed away. Justice Narula was on the Citizen&#8217;s Justice Committee when the government appointed the Mishra Commission to investigate the 1984 pogroms. The Committee was composed of, among others, Justice Narula, Soli Sorabjee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punjab"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}