Jammu, July 6 -- The land of Duggar has given birth to many distinguished sons and daughters-visionaries, patriots, academicians, social reformers, and artists. Among them, Justice R.P. Sethi shines as a towering legal luminary and a compassionate humanitarian who devoted his life to justice, service, and upliftment of the downtrodden.
Born on July 7, 1937, in Mirpur Chamak, a city in undivided Jammu and Kashmir (now in Pakistan), R.P. Sethi came from a modest but principled family. His father, Shri Mangal Sen Sethi, passed away when he was only five, leaving his upbringing to his courageous mother, Smt. Durga Devi. His grandfather, Shri Devi Dayal Sethi, was a court inspector, and the family also owned some land in Chak Da Bagh village in...