This is more than 10 years ago. The Senior Advocate was B. K. Mehta. He was former Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court.
Some poor labourers had come to me to fight their case in Supreme Court of India. They wanted to engage B.K. Mehta as Senior Advocate.
I arranged meeting. At that time his fee was 35,000/-. Since these were poor labourers, I requested him to accept case for RS.10.000/-only. He agreed.
Labourers paid.
Next day B.K.Mehta rang me up and said you take this 10,000 and give it back to those labourers. (Probably, conscience within him told him something)
He did their case free.
Point: Retired High Court judges who come to Supreme Court, to practice as senior advocates have usually come to serve judiciary and to keep them active. Most of them are noble souls.
Haresh Raichura
23/10/13
