Shri Manmohan Lal Sarin
Founder President of SJOBA (St. John’s Old Boys Association) and SJOBA Foundation, Manmohan Lal Sarin, popularly known as Mac to friends, has been the Advocate General of Punjab twice and Haryana once, a unique distinction indeed of having held this prestigious constitutional post of two States. He has been Chairman of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana.
Sarin obtained his LLB from Panjab University and LL.M from Northwestern University, Chicago (USA). He joined the Bar on July 1, 1971 and was designated as a Senior Advocate in March 1987. He is an acclaimed social activist and crusader of the Voluntary Blood Donation Movement.
Mac has attended law conferences in over 100 countries where he presented Papers. He produced the Blood Bankers’ Legal Handbook in 2003 for the Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation. Mac is a Star Donor himself, having donated blood 115 times. He is also the President of the Blood Bank Society Chandigarh.
He has been President of the Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh since 1990. Mac has been knighted by the French Government with the award of ‘Chavelier des Palmes Academiques’ in 1999 and, in 2016, by the second highest French Award “Chevalier L’Ordre National du Merite”.
He was conferred ‘Samman Patras’ in 2000 and 2002 for being the highest income tax payer in the professional category.
He is the Founding Trustee and Secretary General of the Sarin Memorial Legal Aid Foundation.
Mac is the Founding President of Chandigarh Citizens Foundation.
In 2010, he, with the help of his son, Nitin Sarin, Advocate, started the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition. The Moot has travelled around the globe and is the first and only one in the field of Aviation Law in the world.
Sarin is a pioneer of Chandigarh, having lived here since January 1, 1955. In the last two decades he has become the “Ambassador of Chandigarh” and has taken up many causes in Public Interest to save and protect the ‘City Beautiful’ from ruination.
Mac is married to Niti. They have three children and four grandchildren.
In March 2024, Mac released his pictorial autobiography “I Did It My Way”.