{"id":47048,"date":"2017-02-20T03:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=47048"},"modified":"2017-02-20T03:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:35:01","slug":"ghalib-made-justice-thakur-expedite-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/ghalib-made-justice-thakur-expedite-hearing","title":{"rendered":"When Ghalib made Justice Thakur expedite a hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45433\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"45433\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/courts-show-deference-towards-arbitral-awards-cji\/t-s-thakur\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?fit=790%2C444&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"790,444\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"t-s-thakur\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-45433 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"When Ghalib made Justice Thakur expedite a hearing\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/10\/t-s-thakur.jpg?w=790&amp;ssl=1 790w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Ghalib made Justice Thakur expedite a hearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Chief Justice of India T S Thakur once agreed to fast-track the hearing of a case, after he overheard the lawyer in question alluding to one of Ghalib&#8217;s couplets during the court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was hearing a case in the Delhi High court and the lawyer was praying for a short date. I said that my calendar did not permit that and adjourned the matter for six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While leaving the court room, I overheard the lawyer mumbling Ghalib&#8217;s &#8216;aah ko chaahiye ik umr asar hone tak\/ kaun jiitaa hai tirii zulf ke sar hone tak&#8217; (A lifetime passes before a sigh shows its effects\/ Who would wait so long to see you fixing the tangles in your hair). I asked if he could recite the whole poem. He did. And I ordered the matter to be listed for next week,&#8221; Thakur said, expressing his love for Urdu at the ongoing &#8216;Jashn-e-Rekhta&#8217; festival.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the power of expression of Urdu as a language, the jurist said if a picture was worth a thousand words, a couplet in the language was worth &#8220;two thousand words&#8221;, and that many such couplets could be used by lawyers to communicate better in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In courts they say that a lawyer should know his judge.<\/p>\n<p>This does not mean that you have to bribe your judge. Instead you should know his intellectual tastes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing Ghalib and other Urdu poets is of great help on such occasions. But you can&#8217;t recite an illogical couplet either. The lines should be able to formulate your point,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Although well versed in the language, Thakur who unlike his fellow jurists has never had an opportunity to use an Urdu couplet during his 23-year-long legal career, rued that &#8220;a good couplet complementing his judgement has eluded him everytime&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Having served both as a judge and a lawyer in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court that uses Urdu as its official language, Thakur said the initiative to promote the language should begin early at the school level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During my growing up years in Jammu, I was the only student in my class who knew Urdu. My parents were adamant that I learn the language. And I am glad that I did,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The session was also attended by politician Salman Khurshid, Justice Aftab Alam and eminent legal scholar Tahir Mahmood.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Justice of India T S Thakur once agreed to fast-track the hearing of a case, after he overheard the lawyer in question alluding to one of Ghalib&#8217;s couplets during the court proceedings. &#8220;I was hearing a case in the Delhi High court and the lawyer was praying for a short date. 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