{"id":27742,"date":"2017-06-30T13:24:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=27742"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:24:33","slug":"palbinder-kaur-shergil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/palbinder-kaur-shergil\/","title":{"rendered":"Palbinder Kaur Shergil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the followings countries\u2019 Supreme Court has appointed Palbinder Kaur Shergill as the first turbaned (amritdhari) Sikh woman Judge?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Mexico<br \/>\n(b) Canada<br \/>\n(c) UK<br \/>\n(d) Netherlands<br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On June 23rd, 2017, Palbinder Kaur Shergill became the first turbaned (amritdhari) Sikh woman to be appointed judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in New Westminster (Canada).<\/li>\n<li>Jody Wilson-Raybould, minister of justice and attorney general of Canada, announced her appointment.<\/li>\n<li>Justice Shergill has replaced Justice EA Arnold-Bailey, who retired on May 31.<\/li>\n<li>A human rights advocate, Justice Shergill represented the interests of the Canadian Sikh community in several cases heard by the Supreme Court of Canada<\/li>\n<li>She also argued in the case dealing with the right of Sikh students to wear the kirpan (ceremonial dagger) in schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/supreme_court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/supreme_court\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/palbinder-kaur-shergill-becomes-first-turbaned-sikh-woman-to-be-appointed-as-sc-judge-in-canada\/story-HH6a89onW5xNsiq7iYW2WI.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/palbinder-kaur-shergill-becomes-first-turbaned-sikh-woman-to-be-appointed-as-sc-judge-in-canada\/story-HH6a89onW5xNsiq7iYW2WI.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the followings countries\u2019 Supreme Court has appointed Palbinder Kaur Shergill as the first turbaned (amritdhari) Sikh woman Judge? (a) Mexico (b) Canada (c) UK (d) Netherlands Answer- (b) Related facts: On June 23rd, 2017, Palbinder Kaur Shergill became the first turbaned (amritdhari) Sikh woman to be appointed judge of the Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-27742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}