{"id":545,"date":"2018-01-19T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-01-19T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T09:09:06","slug":"sikh-woman-from-jalandhar-village-picked-as-canada-supreme-court-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/sikh-woman-from-jalandhar-village-picked-as-canada-supreme-court-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh woman from Jalandhar village picked as Canada Supreme Court judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source:- indianexpress.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Punjabi diaspora in Canada has added yet another feather to its cap with Palbinder Kaur Shergil becoming the first turbaned Sikh woman to be nominated as the judge of Supreme Court there. Already, most of the the 19 Indian-origin members of the Canadian Parliament are Punjabis. Shergill, who originally hails from a village of Jalandhar district, was four year old when her family moved to Canada in mid-70s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She hails from Rurka Kalan village near Nurmahal and is married at Jagatpur village of Nawanshar district. People of both the villages were delighted. Sarpanch Paramjit Singh of Jagatpur village told The Indian Express, \u201cShe had brought the name of our village on the world map and we are going to honour her extended family members here tomorrow.\u201d Singh said they wanted her to visit the village once.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gurpreet Pal Singh Shergill, a second cousin of Shergill\u2019s husband Amritpal Singh Shergill, said they were proud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scene was similar in Palbinder\u2019s parental village of Rurka Kalan. \u201cWe have distributed sweets in the village as we are proud of her,\u201d said Gurbinder Singh Sandhu of Rurka Kalan, a family member. Palbinder lives in Surrey with husband and three children. She is a known human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/sikh-woman-from-jalandhar-village-picked-as-canada-supreme-court-judge\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:- indianexpress.com The Punjabi diaspora in Canada has added yet another feather to its cap with Palbinder Kaur Shergil becoming the first turbaned Sikh woman to be nominated as the judge of Supreme Court there. Already, most of the the 19 Indian-origin members of the Canadian Parliament are Punjabis. Shergill, who originally hails from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[446,445,444,7],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada-supreme-court","tag-jalandhar-village","tag-sikh-woman","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}