Radhabinod Pal

Radhabinod Pal
Born(1886-01-27)27 January 1886
Salimpur, Bengal Presidency, British India[1]
Died10 January 1967(1967-01-10) (aged 80)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India[1]
NationalityIndian
Education
OccupationJurist
Known forTokyo Trial
Spouse
Nalini Bala Pal
​
(m. 1907)​
Children14
RelativesDebi Prasad Pal (son-in-law)
AwardsPadma Vibhushan

Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966. He was one of three Asian judges appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the "Tokyo Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War.[2] Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgment which insisted all defendants were not guilty. The Yasukuni Shrine and the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine have monuments specially dedicated to Pal.[3]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference banglapedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Jain, M.P. (2006). Outlines of Indian Legal and Constitutional History (6th ed.). Nagpur: Wadhwa & Co. ISBN 978-81-8038-264-2.
  3. ^ Basu, Durga Das (2007). Commentary on the Constitution of India (8th ed.). Nagpur: Wadhwa & Co. ISBN 978-81-8038-479-0.