Which of the following can be attributed to Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru.

1. Member of the Privy Council in London

2. Committee to review the working of press laws in India.

3. Defending the INA trials as a lawyer for the captured soldiers.

4. Drafting of the Indian constitution.

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Solution

· Statement 1 is correct: In 1934, Dr. Sapru was elevated to a membership of the Privy Council in London. · Statement 2 is correct: In 1921, the Government appointed a press committee under the chairmanship of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, then law member of the Viceroy’s Executive council, to review the working of the press laws. On recommendation of the committee the Press Acts of 1908 and 1910 were repealed · Statement 3 is correct: He was one of the main lawyers engaged to defend captured soldiers of the Indian National Army raised by Subhas Chandra Bose. · Statement 4 is correct: A legal expert he in 1928 helped draft the Nehru committee report on constitutional reforms. Further, throughout the constitutional debates Sapru played a key moderating role, appealing at each stage to Hindu and Moslem and to Englishman and Hindu to conciliate their differences. He sought in the process to safeguard the rights of each communal group.