Human Rights' Champion Justice Ajit Singh Bains is no more, last rites on Feb 13
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, February 12, 2022: Renowned for his tireless campaign to protect human rights, former Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Ajit Singh Bains breathed his last on Friday evening. He was 99.
He was a judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 1974 to May 1984.
Justice Ajit Singh Bains founded the Punjab Human Rights Organisation which was instrumental in exposing human rights violations in Punjab.
His body has been kept in House No. 27 in Sector 7 from where the funeral procession will be carried out.
His cremation will be held on February 13 at an electric crematorium in Sector 25 at 12:30 pm.
Justice Bains' son RS Bains is a prominent lawyer. His second son is a senior IAS officer.