October 29, 2016

LR21 New generation may never see such types of lawyers, the Lawyers who used to bow to court building while entering it and leaving it.

New generation may never see such types of lawyers, the Lawyers who used to bow to court building while entering it and leaving it.

Why should a lawyer bow to a court building while entering it? Why should he bow to it while leaving it? It is a lifeless structure of Court building. What purpose does it serve to bow to it?

This advocate's surname was Bawa. I saw him between 1990 to 2010. Everyday at 9:30 he will enter Supreme Court building. He will put his attaché aside. Will stood still. Hands joined. Head bowed towards dome of Supreme Court. He will pray something. Then he will lift up his attaché and will go towards Bar Room Library 1. He will do his work. In evening, when he will leave Supreme Court building, he will repeat salutation to Supreme Court building, the way he did in morning.

He was a simple Advocate. After 2010 he stopped coming. Once he came and distributed his book in Hindi about meaning of GITA.

His rituals of bowing to Supreme Court building are still a mystery to me. Perhaps new generation will never see this type of Advocates.

Haresh Raichura 29/10/16