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{{Short description|Former High Court Judge}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Bawa Singh Walia
| office = [[Judge]] of [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir]]
| term_start = 2015
| term_end = 2017
| appointer =
| nominator =
| office2 = [[Judge]] of [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]]
| term_start2 = 2017
| term_end2 = 2023
| birth_name =
| birth_date =
| alma_mater =
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Justice
| birth_place = [[Jalandhar]], Punjab
}}

'''Bawa Singh Walia''' is a former Indian [[judge]]. He has served in the High Courts of [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh|Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh]] and [[Punjab and Haryana High Court|Punjab and Haryana]] as a judge. He also held the post of Additional Solicitor General of Punjab.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-09-26 |title=HC gets 12 new judges |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/hc-gets-12-new-judges/articleshow/43474101.cms |access-date=2025-04-27 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-09-25 |title=12 new judges to take oath in HC today |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/12-new-judges-to-take-oath-in-hc-today/articleshow/43360707.cms |access-date=2025-04-27 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Justice BS Walia transfer to parent High Court - The News Now |url=https://archive.thenewsnow.co.in/newsdet.aspx?q=39341 |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=archive.thenewsnow.co.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Year, 2017 {{!}} Department of Justice {{!}} India |url=https://doj.gov.in/year-2017-5/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Walia was born on 28 August in 1961 at [[Jalandhar]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=.gov.in |first=S3waas |date=2014-11-01 |title=Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts.... |url=https://cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in/s35d6646aad9bcc0be55b2c82f69750387/uploads/2021/08/2021082341.pdf |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=cdnbbsr.s3waas.gov.in |format=PDF}}</ref>

== Education ==
He completed the degree of B.A., LL.B. and became an advocate.<ref name=":2" />

== Career ==
He enrolled as an advocate on September 14, 1985 and practiced on the Constitutional, Service, Criminal and Arbitration side. On the behalf of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, he conducted cases and was also appointed the Additional Advocate General of Punjab on November 1, 2012. Besides that, he was also the Legal Advisor and Retainer for various organizations including Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation.<ref name=":2" />

In the High court, he was first appointed at the [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]] as an additional judge. Afterwards, he was posted as a [[judge]] at the [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh|Jammu and Kashmir High Court]] in 2015. Again, he was posted back to his parent High Court, the Punjab and Haryana High Court as a judge after 2017. He retired in 2023.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=.nic.in |first=WBJA |title=List of Judges of India... |url=https://www.wbja.nic.in/wbja_adm/files/List%20of%20Judges%20of%20The%20High%20Courts%20in%20india%20%28Arranged%20according%20to%20initial%20date%20of%20appointment%29.pdf |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=West Bengal Journal Academy.nic.in}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Gambhir |first=Ashutosh |date=2017-09-03 |title=Justice Bawa Singh Walia of J&K HC moves back to Punjab and Haryana HC |url=https://www.barandbench.com/news/justice-bawa-singh-walia |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court |url=https://jkhighcourt.nic.in/formercj.php |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=jkhighcourt.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court |url=https://jkhighcourt.nic.in/formerJudges.php |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=jkhighcourt.nic.in}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Punjab and Haryana High Court]]
* [[High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh]]

== References ==
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