Before My Lords rise from the hills !!!

Being in the High Court for last fifteen years, I have never seen such intellectual despondency in the bar. Every Tom Dick and Harry is shifting High Court of Uttarakhand in his hometown if unable to shift it in his own house.

Lawyers, generally known to speak on the basis of records, without seeing any such letter or order or even a post card issued by Prime Minister of India’s office having decided to shift the High Court of Uttarakhand from Nainital has already concluded that it is already done. It is really difficult to understand the ‘hidden motives’ if any of the prime minister of India’s office behind this ‘not so economic or politically gainful’ and secret exercise.

Rather my brothers who are more in service jurisprudence and their transfer matters  are pending (challenging transfer orders from plains to hills) are exceptionally jovial and are in a wait for this windfall. When the High Court itself is shifting from hills to plain areas then logically all the petitions may be allowed en mass by common order. Every government office and its staff serving in the hills may claim the benefit of “similarly situated petitioner”

        While the High Court crave to shift every quarter and crying for lack of space let it be considered that ;

Nobody knows yet as how much money this High Court has already spent on itself from the day of its creation and what will be amount of waste of public money in case any shifting exercise is contemplated?

Nobody knows yet as how a homeopathy clinic could manage to obtain a comfortable space right below the nose of Chief Justices’ court when even most lawyers are still counselling their clients beneath the tree!

Nobody knows yet that why a rarely rarely rarely used UP government office still has its comfortable quarter at the prime place of this High Court while juniors are still calling their clients at the flag pole for meeting?

Now I wonder why that imaginary and absent client “who couldn't  come to High Court because of high cost of stay in Nainital !!!” did not complain for lack of single waiting/counselling room in this court before lodging malicious protest on its very existence in such so called ‘difficult place/durgam area’.

So before my lords rise from here let this be considered in the interest of justice.

In 1857, First war of Independence in India was fought more on the basis of fiction than real facts. However history records that a real war erupted out of the gossips of greased Enfiled cartridges. Not to see it coming was judged as the biggest administrative failure on the parts of the British administration of the day.

Kartikey