Chief Justice Of India Sanjiv Khanna Searches For His “Missing” Family Home
Sources close to Chief Justice Khanna revealed that whenever he visits Amritsar, he visits Katra Sher Singh. This trip, however, he seemed to be missing from his usual spots.
New Delhi:
Justice Sanjiv Khanna, who took oath as the 51st Chief Justice of the country today, is on the trail of his ancestral home in Amritsar.
Sources close to Chief Justice Khanna revealed that whenever he visits Amritsar, he visits Katra Sher Singh. The stop-over is a pilgrimage of sorts. With time, the area has changed, but Justice Khanna still tries to find the house built by his grandfather.
Chief Justice Khanna’s grandfather and legendary Justice HR Khanna’s father Sarav Dayal was a celebrated lawyer of his time, sources said.
Around that time, he had bought two houses – one in Katra Sher Singh near Jallianwala Bagh, and the second in Dalhousie, Himachal Pradesh. It is the Katra Sher Singh house that Justice Khanna is trying to locate.
When Chief Justice Khanna was five years old, he once visited that house with his father. The house bore a sign that read ‘Bauji’, meaning “Grandfather”.
Chief Justice Khanna remembers that house till date. So whenever he goes to Amritsar, he visits Katra Sher Singh and tries to look for that house.
