Monument to Dr.Radha Binod Pal (Tokyo)

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Justice Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist. He was the Indian member appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East's trials of Japanese war crimes committed during the second World War.

The Indian government dispatched him to the Tokyo Trials in 1946. He delivered one of the three dissenting opinions of the Tribunal. He found all the defendants not guilty of Class A war crimes, even though he condemned the Japanese war-time conduct as "devilish and fiendish". He was highly critical of conspiracy and he was unable to apply such a new crime as waging aggressive wars and committing crimes against peace and humanity - Class A war crimes created by the Allies after the war - ex post facto. His reasoning influenced the dissenting opinions of the judges for the Netherlands and France. He pleaded that all defendants were not guilty. His defence speach at the process was for a long time (until 1952) prohibited for publication by the Allied Powers. His position at the process is still considered as controversial by many concerned parties.