It was April 1946 and World War II had ended just months ago with the surrender of Germany and Japan. The Allied powers (USA, USSR, and the UK) had claimed victory. That's when the turn came to try the leaders and officers of the losing side for crimes against humanity and hand down the toughest possible punishments. In the West, jurists appointed by the victors of the War tried Nazi officers in the German city of Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946. In the east, a similar court convened in Tokyo to try the leaders of Imperial Japan, which was morally and financially battered by the war. The fate of 25 Japanese leaders, was in the hands of 11 judges from around the world. Among the 11 jurists who would deliver justice in the nation flattened by American bombs, was an Indian judge. Nadia-bo

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