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RUP NARAYAN

CHIEF JUDGE, SIKKIM CHIEF COURT

Rup Narayan was the second son of Raibahadur Tilok Chand and Tirath Devi. He
was born in 1887 in Kasur. Raibahadur Tilok Chand retired in 1915 as Deputy
Commissioner of Montgomery District. Rup Narayan passed his matriculation
examination and entered the Government College Lahore from where he did his FA
and BA with Persian as one of his subjects. He went on to complete his LLB at the law
college in 1909.

Rup Narayan was an easy going man, philosophical and agnostic and very
compassionate. He was a practicing lawyer in Leiah till 1915. Around the said time,
he came to know through his relatives that the princely state of Sikkim was seeking a
Chief Judge. In 1915, the Sikkim Chief Courts were created. The 1923–1924 annual
administration report of the Judicial Department of the State of Sikkim informs us that
“with a view to further improve the Judicial administration of the State, the Durbar
has acquired the services of a competent legal man in the person of Mr. Rup
Narayan BA BLT from Punjab and has been appointed as Chief Judge of the Sikkim
Chief Court from the year 1923, on a pay of Rs. 300/- 20-400.”

The records of the Chief Court reveal that Rup Narayan presided over the Chief
Court as late as 1953.

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