33 Facts About Rajinder Sachar

Rajindar Sachar was an Indian lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court.

Rajinder Sachar was a member of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and served as a counsel for the People's Union for Civil Liberties.

Rajinder Sachar chaired the Rajinder Sachar Committee, constituted by the Government of India, which submitted a report on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in India.

On 16 August 2011 Rajinder Sachar was arrested in New Delhi during protests over the detention of Anna Hazare and his supporters.

Rajinder Sachar's grandfather was a well-known criminal lawyer in Lahore.

Rajinder Sachar helped this group prepare memoranda levelling charges of corruption and mal-administration against Pratap Singh Kairon, Chief Minister of the Indian state of Punjab.

On 12 February 1970 Rajinder Sachar was appointed Additional Judge of the Delhi High Court for a two-year term, and on 12 February 1972 he was reappointed for another two years.

Rajinder Sachar was acting chief justice of the Sikkim High court from 16 May 1975 until 10 May 1976, when he was made a judge in the Rajasthan High Court.

Rajinder Sachar was one of the judges that refused to follow the bidding of the Emergency establishment, and who were transferred as a form of punishment.

In June 1977 Justice Rajinder Sachar was appointed by the government to chair a committee that reviewed the Companies Act and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, submitting an encyclopaedic report on the subject in August 1978.

Rajinder Sachar's committee recommended a major overhaul of the corporate reporting system, and particularly of the approach to reporting on social impacts.

In May 1984 Rajinder Sachar reviewed the Industrial Disputes Act, including the backlog of cases.

In November 1984, Justice Rajinder Sachar issued notice to the police on a writ petition filed by Public Union for Democratic Rights on the basis of evidence collected from 1984 Sikh riot victims, asking FIRs to be registered against leaders named in affidavits of victims.

However, in the next hearing the case was removed from the Court of Mr Rajinder Sachar and brought before two other Judges, who impressed petitioners to withdraw their petition in the national interest, which they declined, then dismissed the petition.

Justice Rajinder Sachar declared much later that his memory is still haunted by the reminiscence of not being able to get FIR registered in these cases.

Rajinder Sachar was Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court from 6 August 1985 until his retirement on 22 December 1985.

Rajinder Sachar was one of the authors of a report issued on 22 April 1990 on behalf of the People's Union for Civil Liberties and others entitled "Report on Kashmir Situation".

In January 1992 Rajinder Sachar was one of the signatories to an appeal to all Punjabis asking them to ensure that the forthcoming elections were free and were seen to be free.

Rajinder Sachar was appointed to a high-level Advisory Committee chaired by Chief Justice Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi to review the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 and determine whether structural changes and amendments were needed.

Rajinder Sachar led a team of human rights activists who visited them in jail on 15 September 2004 and persuaded them to end the hunger strike.

In October 2009 Rajinder Sachar called for abolition of these laws.

Rajinder Sachar said "Terrorism is there, I admit, but in the name of terror probe, many innocent people are taken into custody without registering a charge and are being detained for long period".

Rajinder Sachar, who had formerly been a United Nations special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, headed a mission that investigated housing rights in Kenya for the Housing and Land Rights Committee of the Habitat International Coalition.

Rajindra Rajinder Sachar participated with retired justices Hosbet Suresh and Siraj Mehfuz Daud in an investigation by the Indian People's Human Rights Tribunal into a massive slum clearance drive in Mumbai, which had the ostensible purpose of preserving the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.

Rajinder Sachar headed a People's Court in 2002 to deliberate on people affected by evictions required to widen the Beliaghata Circular Canal in Kolkata, needed for health and safety purposes.

In March 2005 Justice Rajinder Sachar was appointed to a committee to study the condition of the Muslim community in India and to prepare a comprehensive report on their social, economic and educational status.

In December 2009 it was reported that Rajinder Sachar was being proposed as Governor of West Bengal to replace Gopalkrishna Gandhi, whose term had expired.

At the age of eighty-seven Rajinder Sachar was detained by Delhi Police on 16 August 2011 during the India Against Corruption protest.

Rajinder Sachar claimed that he knew the law and should not be arrested, but despite this he was taken into custody.

Rajinder Sachar was a guest at anti-India conferences organized by Ghulam Nabi Fai in the US.

Rajinder Sachar called for the 500 pages of documents collected during the inquiry to be made public, saying: "There is no reason why the public should not be told of the full contents of the Bofors papers and only delay in disclosing the contents will unnecessarily expose the government to the charge of political manipulation".

In March 2003 Rajinder Sachar was a signatory to a statement that condemned the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling it "unprovoked, unjustified, violates international law and constitut[ing] an act of aggression".

Rajinder Sachar was suffering from ischemic heart disease and had an artificial cardiac pacemaker implanted.