May 16, 2012

A lawyer watered his plants daily and he became Chief Justice of High Court

True, vegetable plants have life. But do we look at plants as if they are truly living persons?

A lawyer named B.K.Mehta used to practise as an advocate in Bhavnagar District Court.

He used believe that one can receive lots of blessings of Gods if one can keep some plants and water them daily.

This was his faith. However there is no scientific evidence that one become blessed if one worships and waters few plants daily. There are no experiments made to find out.

One day, he came from Bhavnagar to High Court in Ahmedabad and argued a case. The Judge noticed something in this lawyer. He was invited to become a Judge of Gujarat High Court. (Till today, he is the only advocate of a District Court who was invited by High Court for judgeship from a small District Court. All such selections are made from High Court advocates only, to the best of my knowledge)

Later, he became Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court. After his retirement he came to practise as Senior Advocate in Supreme Court. Here, I met him. He told me about his faith in plants.

He had continued practice of maintaining and watering few plants everyday till his last.

Haresh Raichura
16th May,2012