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If you ask me what day is today, i may not be able to tell you; now a days, all my days are sundays. But if you ask me what day was september 25, 2004 i have got the answer ready - it was a saturday!
September 25, 2004 was the day a writ petition, no. 7336 of 2004, filed by me was to be heard in the kerala high court. The presiding judge himself had told me so; that though september 25, 2004 was a saturday the court was going to be in session on that day and even, that i can come in the afternoon - that was very kind of his lordship.
But when i turned up in the court on 25th of septemeber 2004, in the morning itself, i was told that the case has already been called on the previous day, that is 24th of september ! I was aghast; if at all there could be a problem the normal thing is to postpone the case and NOT take it up on the previous day.
What was the reason for this aberration ? I have no idea. But one thing is certain - it ensured that i was not present in the court on the day of hearing.
If the case was postponed, i would come to know of it when i reach the court on 25th and i would have been present on the court on the next stipulated day. But preponing it ( as opposed to postponing - i dont see such a word in the dictionary but i hope you get the point), that too, to a day just prior to the one originally fixed for the hearing, makes it certain that i miss the hearing!
Once bitten, twice shy; i have a case coming for hearing in the lok ayukta on 18 september 2007 against the same officialdom, and, i am worried.
jyothi-in-person
Incidentally WP no.7336 was the third of a series of writ petitions i have filed in the kerala high court on the same matter. ( for elaborate details of the case please go to my home page with geocities and click the link "petitions" ) The first two were decided in my favour and there was no way this, the third one could have gone against me. And, by the way, from the second writ petition onwards it was all jyothi-in- person!
i had a lawyer representing me in the first of the above three writ petitions; but then i realised that the basic strategy of the respondents was to drag on and exhaust me of funds - the respondents get the government pleader to argue their case for free. So, from then on, i decided to do it all on my own; and it worked!
I drafted the second writ petition myself and presented it in the kerala high court and the case was decided in my favour.
WP no.7336, the third one, was again my handiwork and i got it admitted on my own steam and, i am convinced, there was no way this particular petition could have been decided against me.
Now suppose on 24th of september 2004 when i was tricked into missing the hearing, the govt. pleader, who represents the respondents in the above writ petition, requests that jyothi be treated non compos mentis, do you think the court would have agreed ? No way; they are honourable men, No ?
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