Judges are not monks, work pressure gets to them, too: SC judge LN Rao
“I know that I have raised my voices a few times at least to the degree that lawyers of drown,” he said.
Judges are not monks and work pressure is getting to them as well, Justice L. Nageswara Rao, the fifth senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, said on Friday during a brief Ceremonial Bench with CJI on his last working day. office.
Justice Rao, the seventh in the history of the apex court who was elevated directly from the bar, termed a “good sojourn” over his tenure as judge of the top court and fondly recalled his advocacy days as well.
“I have been a member of this bar for 22 years and it is all my love and affection. I had a very smooth ride. Thank you very much. ”
“Even today I feel that the side (of advocates) is much better than this, and given the chance that I would be there for my lifetime. Thank you very much It has been a good sojourn for me. I have learned from brother and sister judges and I hope that I live up to your expectations. I am from this bar, ”he said.
Moved by the well wishes of members of the Bar and Attorney General KK Venugopal, and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Justice Rao said that if he wanted to apologize, he would raise his voice during court proceedings.
“If I have been harsh in the court and if I have hurt somebody. I apologize for that. Please understand that the job is such that we have to decide which one of the beneficiaries and the other side who would not be happy with what we did. ”
“And the pressure of work sometimes gets to us. I know that I have raised my voices a few times at least to the degree that lawyers of drown, ”he said.
Justice Rao said he would prefer to be a lawyer for his entire life and said, “When I was elevated, I had told Justice Gogoi that I was still a lawyer. The lawyers are better for you to do that, and that will help you. ” Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana, who was heading the Ceremonial Bench, said that he and Justice Rao were in the same position from advocacy practice in Andhra Pradesh.
“He is a first-generation lawyer. He had no godfather and no support. I wish him and his family all the best. It’s a very emotional day. There has been strong support for me, ”Justice Ramana said.
The CJI stated that Justice Rao would be heading to the Hyderabad International Arbitration Center on June 7.
Justice Ramana CJI said he was reserving his further comments for the farewell function organized by the SCBA in the evening.
Venugopal referred to some important judgments, including the grant Relief to AG Prerarivalana conviction in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, rendered by a bench headed by Justice Rao.
The solicitor general said. “I have a lot of learning from him as a human being.” Justice Rao is retiring on June 7 and Friday is his last working day as the Apex Court is closing in on summer vacations today.
Justice Rao, hailing from Chirala in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh, did his law at Gujarat University of Gujarat and was enrolled as an advocate in 1982 at the Bar Council of Andhra Pradesh.
After practicing law at Guntur District Court for two years, he was shifted to the Andhra Pradesh High Court and remained there until December 1994.
From January 1995 to May 2016, he practiced as a lawyer at the Supreme Court and became a senior advocate and then Additional Solicitor General.
He was supposed to a judge on the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016.
