CJI S A Bobde while recently hearing a plea filed by one Sameet Thakkar under Article 32 seeking consolidation of multiple FIRs against him by the Maharastra Police and seeking his release from the jail, remarked that Court is immune to shock. The CJI’s remarks came after a senior advocate representing Thakker said If this case does not shock the Court, then nothing will. Raju Z Moray pens a poem suggesting that it may be best not to knock on the door of the top Court but follow procedure and start from a lower court.
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Those who are trapped
Between hard-place and rock
Were surprised to know
Milords are immune to shock
Milords are the apex of law
Their words cannot be wrong
Suffering is part of procedure
To make the sufferer strong
Don’t knock on our doors
It is of hardly any avail
Start from the lowest step
Otherwise you shall fail
Don’t engage any bigwigs
And increase our travail
Our lunch is long overdue
And you bother us for bail?
Don’t cite as precedents
Orders of our brethren
Let them give some reasons
We shall consider then..
Have faith in our system
We don’t harbour rancour
For us all of you are equal
(Give or take an anchor)
If you try to jump the queue
Our doors we may have to lock
But for the time being
We are just immune to shock
(Raju Z Moray is an advocate who practices law in the Bombay High Court when not puncturing bloated egos. He is the creator of ‘Gobble D. Gook’, his alter-ego, who figured in the ‘Court Jester’ columns of ‘The Lawyers’.)
