Reporter's Diary: Instead of arguments, wordy duel prevails at HC

It all started when the case pertaining to some advocates trespassing into the residence of the Chief Justice on April 2, 2016, came up for hearing. The CB-CID had filed a status report as directed in the previous hearing, which revealed that a group of advocates who trespassed into the Chief Justice’s residence was a ‘paid group’. 

The bench, on perusing the report, made it known that the final report, scheduled to be filed within two weeks, will be placed before the Bar Council for necessary action. To this, the petitioner objected saying the Bar Council was hand in glove with the advocates involved in trespassing and nothing would come out of it. 

Another advocate, once an office-bearer of the State Bar Council, jumped in, and accused the petitioner of being a ‘420’ (Section 420 deals with cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) and that he had no locus standi to talk. With accusations turning murky and loud, the Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul had to cut them short with an angry retort, ‘that’s enough’.