Honours and Tributes
The government of India honored him with the Padma Vibhushan, India's penultimate civilian award, in 1999.
He has been awarded honorary Doctor of Law degrees by numerous universities, including Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, National Law School of India University, Government Law College, Mumbai, University of Calcutta and his alma mater Panjab University.
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, the Supreme Court Bar Association presented him with a plaque conferring upon him the title of "Living Legend of Law".
Khushwant Singh said of him, "Justice Khanna, is so clean a man that he makes angels look dishevelled and dirty."
Two sets of lectures are held in Justice Khanna's honour.
A series of lectures was organized by Justice Khanna's family for some years after his death but was subsequently discontinued. They were presided over by Soli Sorabjee, who was a very close friend of Justice Khanna's.
The first lecture was delivered by Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, on the topic "The Constitutional World of Justice Khanna". In 2010, the speaker was K.K. Venugopal. The third installment in 2011 was delivered by Justice Santosh Hegde. In 2012, the last in this succession of lectures, the H.R. Khanna Centennial Memorial Lecture was held - the speakers of which were Justice J.S. Verma and B G Verghese.
The KIIT Law School also holds a H.R. Khanna Memorial Lecture. The first one was delivered by Gopal Subramaniam, in 2011 on the topic "Legal and Political Processes in Modern Indian Democracy". It was presided over by Justice Ranganath Misra. The same lecture for the year 2012 was delivered by Justice Dipak Misra
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