Barrister Pardeep Singh Tiwana, (51), who has his roots in Kot Kalan village near Jalandhar Cantt, is the first Indian to be appointed as a judge of the County Court of Victoria (Australia).
The villagers on Wednesday performed a Path and distributed sweets after getting this news. No one from Tiwana’s family is presently living in the village.
Villagers said that Tiwana’s family hails from Kot Kalan, though the Judge himself was born and brought up in the UK.
Tiwana did his barrister study from the bar school of Lincoln’s Inn and was the youngest applicant to get a law degree as a barrister. He has two scholarships from bar school and applied in 1993 as a 23-year-old youth.
He practiced till 2006 there, before moving to Australia. After doing a 3-month law course from Melbourne university, he started practicing there as a criminal lawyer in 2006.
Paramjit Singh Raipur, an SGPC member, said that Pardeep Singh Tiwana’s father Ajit Singh Tiwana was close to his family and he used to visit the village once in 2-3 years, The Indian Express reported.
He said that he is proud and happy that a man from Jalandhar has become the first Indian Judge in Australia.
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