Indian judge
Pritam Pal is former Lokayukta, an anti-corruption ombudsman body in the Indian State of Haryana, India. After serving as Lokayukta he retired from services on 18 January 2016. He was born on 3 June 1947 in the village Kandroli in the District Yamunanagar, Haryana. After putting 14 years of practice in Law, he joined Haryana Superior Judicial Service and remained District and Sessions Judge of various districts. In the year 2002, he was posted as Registrar General and then elevated as permanent Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. On his superannuation, he was appointed as President, State Consumer Redressal Commission, UT, Chandigarh. Thereafter he was appointed Lokayukta, Haryana. He recommended action in many high-profile matters involving Ministers, MLAs, Builders, Promoters and senior officers for committing acts of corruption. In his reports to the Governor, for eradication of corruption, he recommended and suggested for introducing compulsory moral education at school level. He also headed the Monitoring Committee of National Green Tribunal constituted for the State of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and UT, Chandigarh. Presently, he is Vice-President of DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi.
Law career.
Pritam Pal practiced as a lawyer for 14 years at District Courts of Karnal and Kurukshetra. This period of legal practice was mainly devoted to the social service, Arya Samaj, and for improving the educational facilities in the area.
Judge in Haryana Superior Judicial Service.
In March 1986 he was selected as a member to the Judiciary. Later he joined as Additional District and Sessions Judge.
Postings as District and Sessions Judge.
Districts Gurgaon, Rohtak, Ambala, Yamuna Nagar, Hisar, Mohindergarh at Narnaul, Bhiwani and Faridabad.
January 2002 to November 2004: Registrar General of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
High Court Judge.
November 2004: Elevated as Permanent Judge to Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh. During tenure he presided over approximately 6900 cases.
June 2009: Retired after attaining age of superannuation.
President, State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh.
Appointed and worked as such till 17 January 2011.
Social Justice Front.
Justice Pritam Pal has launched a non-political, but social outfit under the name of “Social Justice front”. Aim of this front would be to fight prevailing corruption, injustice with any individual or any section of society, drug abuse, female foeticide, character building, promote education, and work against various other prevailing social evils weakening the social set up.
Membership for this organisation has been launched.
Languages.
He is fluent in English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Writer.
Pritam Pal has written three books in three different languages. Firstly "Power of Thought" in English and "Vichar Shakti ka Chamatkar" in Hindi. He has written another book "Mukti Prapti ki Vidhi" in Sanskrit.
Religious person and social worker.
He is a strict disciple of Arya Samaj, He is running Aarshvidya Gurukul at Yagya shala situated on Ladwa-Indri road, Kurukshetra, with the main objective of imparting value and character based education for poor children, affiliated with Haryana Shiksha Board. He is regularly holding character building camps for the last ten years along with other social activities including organizing free medical camps, blood donation camps and mass marriages of poor girls. He has written three books; ‘’Power of Thought” in English, “Vichar Shakti Ka Chamatkar’’ in Hindi and ‘’Mukti Prapti Ki Vidhi” in Sanskrit. He was in the news when he donated antique articles to the Kurukshetra University which are now kept in a cultural museum.
Presently, he has undertaken to create an awareness qua the issues of environment protection and social justice in the State of Haryana. He firmly believes that air, water and land are three main components of the ‘Nature’ which have been described in our scriptures i.e in Vedas and Gurubani, water as father ‘Pita’, air as guru ‘Teacher’ and land as mother ‘Mata’. His slogan “Development is must but environment and health is first” epitomize the values by which we all should live.
Ideology.
For him value of life is the greatest asset of mankind. He lays much emphasis on the character of a person which according to him is the reason and source for our happiness and sorrow. He gives regular speeches to visitors to his Yagyashala and also at the places he visits. His major quotes are shared below:
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