Yet another
agonizing and unexpected adjournment of the SC bench hearing and this time it
is said that it was for technical reasons.
The learned judges are aware of the
fact that the pensioners involved in the case, most of them are living on
borrowed time and already ailing and aged they wish for this litigation to come
to an end in their life time.
Even if the adjournment is judicially justified
adjournment for two weeks is rather painful and it could have been for one week
as the suit is fought for well over a decade having seen too many adjournments.
The next hearing posted on April 22 will be quickly followed by the court
closing for summer vacation and until then we keep our fingers crossed. No
wonder people are losing faith in our judicial system and prefer to be away
from it and resigning to one’s fate.
When an important litigation concerning
the aged and ailing pensioners is partly heard in every sitting its continuity
is marred by remembrance learned judges are no exception for they are also
human beings and in between they were hearing too many suits to eclipse their remembrance.
In this scenario one cannot forget a judge who sat on June 25 1995 in the bench
for seven-and-half hour forgoing his lunch unmindful of his advanced age and
physical discomfort allowed the marathon arguments by the counsels in the famous
Indira Nehru Gandhi V Raj Narain and others then retired to his chamber and in
the mid night dictated his order and that was Vaidyanathapuram Rama Iyer
Krishna Iyer who understood the pangs of the common man, was human proactive
and impartial. When will the judiciary see another V.R.KRISHNA IYER?