Once a retired judge was travelling in train. The person sitting on next seat was father of a convict whom he had given death.
He was earlier a District and Sessions Judge in a district in Uttar Pradesh.
After retirement he was practising as lawyer in Supreme Court. In train he used to daily commute to Delhi from his own town.
One day, he could not find place for sitting in the over crowded train. A man squeezed some space and offered him to sit.
After he sat down, that man said, "Sir, do you know me? I am the father of a person whom you had sentenced to death! "
The judge did not know how to respond.
The man further said,"It is good that you sentenced him to death. Otherwise relatives of victim would have killed him. But since you gave him death sentence, relatives of victim cooled down. Later he appealed to High Court and then to Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court commuted death sentence to life imprisionment and he is alive today because of you."
The man thanked judge.
The Judge relaxed.
Haresh Raichura
1/12/13
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