Our "temples of justice" namely our courts of justice are certainly getting far more innovative, quirky and sagacious with their sentencing if the below mentioned example is any yardstick to go by.......
The Delhi High Court recently asked a women teacher to offer prayers at the Samadhi of the "apostle of truth and non violence" Mahatma Gandhi (Rajghat) so that she could atone for the unpardonable sin of repeatedly lying about her marital status before the said court.........
An absolutely miffed and exasperated bench of justices Kailash Gambhir and Indermeet Kaur Brusquely set aside the unconditional apology offered by the quivering offender Farah Khatoon and contemptuously dismissed her feeble and rather unconvincing plea for leniency citing her discomfiture and lack of familiarity with legal procedures and practices as she was appearing in a court of law for the first time.........
In a far reaching and epochal order the two judge bench ordained that the culprit spend at least four hours a day on four days of every week beginning December 21 looking inwards, improving her lot as a human being and coming to terms with the undeniable fact that lying under oath (committing perjury) before a court of law is anything but a paying proposition........
It also levied a fine of Rs. 2,000/- and asked the offender to deposit the same with the Mahatma Gandhi Trust within a week from December 21; acerbically commenting that it was indeed hard to digest the fact that a woman who is gainfully employed as a teacher in a school run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is blissfully unaware of the irrefutable fact that she cannot lie before a court of law even though she was unrepresented by a counsel or lawyer or under considerable emotional pressure and trauma as claimed by her.........
Terming her conduct simply unacceptable and unpardonable, the learned judges acidly remarked that "the entire conduct of the lady in question was contumacious and highly condemnable, she kept repeatedly lying and also had the audacity to take a false and highly contentious stand on a trivial issue like her marital status and is therefore unworthy of any leniency or mercy ".........
The court also ordered the area police station to monitor the victim's movements in the Rajghat area and directed that they ensure that she adheres to the court's verdict and offers prayers in complete and abject silence so that she feels both utter shame and remorse for her deplorable and highly objectionable conduct........
This rather quirky and seemingly eccentric judgement came in the backdrop of her lawafully wedded husband Rakesh filing a petition before the court alleging that her father had unlawfully restrained and detained his daughter within the confines of his residential premises even though she had legally married the respondent in the presence of a sub registrar of marriages on April 9,2012 as her father subscribed to the age old and commonplace belief about his daughter having committed blasphemy by marrying outside her community.........
Judicial over reach or a highly moralistic and soul stirring judgement?????? well, I think each one of us would have our own opinion about the same...........
The Delhi High Court recently asked a women teacher to offer prayers at the Samadhi of the "apostle of truth and non violence" Mahatma Gandhi (Rajghat) so that she could atone for the unpardonable sin of repeatedly lying about her marital status before the said court.........
An absolutely miffed and exasperated bench of justices Kailash Gambhir and Indermeet Kaur Brusquely set aside the unconditional apology offered by the quivering offender Farah Khatoon and contemptuously dismissed her feeble and rather unconvincing plea for leniency citing her discomfiture and lack of familiarity with legal procedures and practices as she was appearing in a court of law for the first time.........
In a far reaching and epochal order the two judge bench ordained that the culprit spend at least four hours a day on four days of every week beginning December 21 looking inwards, improving her lot as a human being and coming to terms with the undeniable fact that lying under oath (committing perjury) before a court of law is anything but a paying proposition........
It also levied a fine of Rs. 2,000/- and asked the offender to deposit the same with the Mahatma Gandhi Trust within a week from December 21; acerbically commenting that it was indeed hard to digest the fact that a woman who is gainfully employed as a teacher in a school run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is blissfully unaware of the irrefutable fact that she cannot lie before a court of law even though she was unrepresented by a counsel or lawyer or under considerable emotional pressure and trauma as claimed by her.........
Terming her conduct simply unacceptable and unpardonable, the learned judges acidly remarked that "the entire conduct of the lady in question was contumacious and highly condemnable, she kept repeatedly lying and also had the audacity to take a false and highly contentious stand on a trivial issue like her marital status and is therefore unworthy of any leniency or mercy ".........
The court also ordered the area police station to monitor the victim's movements in the Rajghat area and directed that they ensure that she adheres to the court's verdict and offers prayers in complete and abject silence so that she feels both utter shame and remorse for her deplorable and highly objectionable conduct........
This rather quirky and seemingly eccentric judgement came in the backdrop of her lawafully wedded husband Rakesh filing a petition before the court alleging that her father had unlawfully restrained and detained his daughter within the confines of his residential premises even though she had legally married the respondent in the presence of a sub registrar of marriages on April 9,2012 as her father subscribed to the age old and commonplace belief about his daughter having committed blasphemy by marrying outside her community.........
Judicial over reach or a highly moralistic and soul stirring judgement?????? well, I think each one of us would have our own opinion about the same...........
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