‘My Lord’s’ business
“Here my lord, in this case my lord, the honourable court my lord...” - this was how an advocate was presenting his argument in a case at the Karnataka High Court recently. None of his sentences would end without the addressing of ‘My Lord’ at least thrice in a sentence. Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph who was heading the divisional bench was irked by repeated utterance of ‘My Lord”.
The CJ finally with folded hands, appealed to the advocate “please stop this My Lord-My Lord business”. The advocate’s reaction - “My Lord, I am sorry My Lord!”.
-Satish Shile
Terrorism and television If there's a media conference by DG & IGP K R Sreenivasan, then witty responses are usually the norm instead of a direct answer.
And as expected, it was case during a press briefing on recent arrests of suspected terrorists which turned out to be a laughathon for all present. Though most questions were directed to DG, COD Ajay Kumar Singh, but there was always a witty interference by the D G Sreenivasan.
Sample this. Replying to the question about calling the arrested persons as terrorists or suspected terrorists, the DG said if the terrorist was not married, would you call him unmarried or a bachelor?
When a reporter asked “how deep rooted is the terror organisation and how you are dealing with it”, the answer was “Other crime are like short stories but terrorism was like mega serial!”
The third place went to the reply to a question about why should there be surveillance on students “Terrorism is a like a jalebi, you can’t figure out where it begins and where it ends.”
But the icing on the cake was the query about Anti-Terrorist Cell which the DG replied that it was now 'Antique' Terrorist Cell and the journalist took it as 'Aunty' Terrorist Cell which triggered a bout of extended laughter before the 'press briefing' came to a tickling end.
-Anantha Subramanyam K.
Political consensus finally!
We in the media are usually the first audience for allegations and counter allegations of politicians. And if elections are a real possibility in the near future, then every politician has comment to make.
Recently a senior Congressman was addressing media persons and said that the Election Commission should hold Assembly elections only after the voters’ list had been properly updated. He said that Commission should take it own time and it did not matter if the elections were postponed till November. He even accused the other political parties of trying to ‘kill democracy’ by hurrying up the process .
But on the other hand other political parties have accused Congress of being keen on postponing the elections, terming that as ‘anti-democratic’. It certainly feels weird to hear similar ‘concerns’ from different people with different reasoning. It seems that politics has now unanimously turned to be power-craving rather than upholding democracy. Our concern is that, are they all in agreement only about killing democracy and disagreeing how to go about it?
- Rashmi R Hebbur
Unanimous lordship!
A national level moot court competition held on Sunday at a law college in the city saw a panel of judges on a common platform.
While legal luminary, Justice Rama Jois who was the chief justice of Punjab and Haryana High Courts spoke first and gave advice the other junior sitting judges of the Karnataka High Court who spoke later were a wee bit hesitant.
Justice Hanumappa Billappa and Justice H V G Ramesh said whenever a bench of judges come together to deliver a judgement, the senior most among them gives his verdict and the others have no choice, but to agree.
“I have nothing more to say than what has already been told by his lordship. His experience has not only been in the judiciary, but also in administration.” said Justice H V G Ramesh.
Like on the bench, their lordships certainly are unanimous, off the court as well!
