Award And Other Stories

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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36 When the stunned round abouts could not understand this sudden quesrion, the Saint burst into huge laughter. ...... Amidst his own ongoing laughter, he prescribed that a heart-winning Judge should be full of Wits and Humours and Smiles and Laughters-innocent Laughters-too, so that he can make the heavy and firy atmosphere of Arguments light and smooth and solacing. All the listeners were wonderstruck with such a prescription to be a True Judge.
A Young Student of Law, who was walking with the Saint, was very much moved and inspired by the Jewel-like words of him. He resolved in his mind that after becoming a Lawyer and practicing honestly, fighting the Right Cases only of the Sufferrers and down-troddens, he will become such a JUDGE one day.
After Streneous Practice and Hard work as a Dedicated Lawyer who had firmly resolved to be an Illustrious Judge as per the prescription and expectation of the Saint on the March, he was wholeheartedly invited to join the Judiciary, He became a Judge and constantly kept that ideal before him. With his dedicated-integrated Hard Work and Constant Self-Awareness, he went on imparting right judgements to rightly deserving litigants. The Rightly searching Truth tendency of this Unique Judge went on solacing the sufferers and serving the Nation through Right, Integrated, Non Corrupt, Scandals-free Judiciary.
Contrary, quite contrary to this Creditable Judge, there was one of his own Law-classmates, who had gradually become a Judge in a Lower Court. Not having the noble Aims and Attitudes and Actions like the First Judge, he went on indulging in some sorts of favours and friendships with comforts-providing and own-communityLawyers. This gave birth to a vicious circle of injustices being provided to Justice-seeking suffering Litigants. When one such Sufferer, pointed only at his favours & friendship based friend Advocate who was boasting everywhere of his being an Ex-Court Judge and practicing now after his retirement, was made to heavily suffer. Contrarily filed against him were frivolous cases of CONTEMPT OF COURT, since No Judge could be pointed out even a smallest finger against him, as per the Law...!
The Chainlike vicious circle of CONTEMPT OF COURT cases went on against the said sufferer litigant. Luckily, the First Illustrious Judge, before whom one of his Contempt Case came, with the help of this Sufferer's dedicated revolutionary Advocate, went into the depths of the real facts and freed him. He was free from contempt of Court Case Proceedings. All proceedings against him were justifyingly dropped. Such a Judge proved the saying-----
"IN THE COURT OF GOD, THERE MAY BE DELAY, BUT NOT DARKNESS". And here, ultimately, both the persons-the Ex-Judge Advocate and his friend Judge-suffered heavily in the COURT OF GOD & RIGHT JUSTICE. The Advocate suddenly died of Shock and the Favouring Judge found his name in