Radhabinod Pal, you may not have even heard the name of this great man. There are many other Indians, who neither know nor recognize him, but today we are going to tell you such things about this person, which will surprise you. Not only do people know this person in Japan but also worship him like a god. This is the reason why special memorials have been built in Japan's Yasukuni Temple and Kyoto's Ryogen Gokoku Devalaya in his memory.
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Radhabinod Pal, born in the then Bengal province on 27 January 1886, was an Indian legal jurist and judge. He had studied law from Presidency College and Kolkata University in Kolkata and after that, he was also a teacher in this university from 1923 to 1936. In the year 1941, he was appointed a judge in the Kolkata High Court. Apart from this, he was also an advisor to the British. Radhabinod Pal was an Indian judge in the 'Tokyo Trials', an international lawsuit against war crimes committed by Japan after World War II. He was made the representative of India by the British government. In total 11 judges, he was the only judge who had decided that all war criminals are innocent. These prisoners included more than 20 other leaders and military officers, including the then Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo.
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Judge Pal wrote in his judgment that it is not proper to make laws about an incident after it has happened and that is why he ruled to leave all, forcing the prosecution of prisoners of war to the victorious countries of the World War, while the rest of the judges Had given him the death penalty. This is the reason why in Japan he is still respected as a great person.
