What is this 'yeah, yeah'? This is not a coffee shop: CJI Chandrachud pulls up lawyer in court
The CJI castigated a lawyer for using the informal 'yeah, yeah' in court to address the bench saying he is "allergic" to the expression. This is a courtroom, not a café
The Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud today (September 30) castigated a lawyer for using the informal 'yeah, yeah' in court to address the bench and said he is "allergic" to the expression. This is a courtroom, not a café, the Chief Justice reprimanded the lawyer, who was representing himself in a writ petition.
The lawyer’s petition related to the alleged wrong dismissal of his plea by former Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, challenging his "illegal termination" from service.
The petitioner sought an in-house probe against Gogoi, who is now a Rajya Sabha MP. The content of his plea led to a heated exchange of words between the Chief Justice (CJI) and the petitioner.
“But is it an Article 32 plea? how can you file a PIL with a judge as a respondent. There has to be some dignity," said the CJI. Article 32 of the Constitution guarantees citizens the right to seek constitutional remedies when their fundamental rights are violated.
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It is then the lawyer responded, "Yeah, yeah, the then CJI Ranjan Gogoi... I was asked to file a curative..."
Not a coffee shop
His use of the words, 'yeah, yeah', infuriated the Chief Justice, who cut him short and ticked him off saying ‘this is not a coffee shop, say yes!”
What is this 'yeah yeah', he asked, adding that he is “very allergic to this yeah yeah". "This cannot be allowed,” affirmed Chief Justice Chandrachud.
Besides a lecture on language decorum in court, the Chief Justice proceeded to explain to the lawyer, "Justice Gogoi was a former judge of this court and he cannot file a plea like this against a judge and seek an in-house inquiry because he did not succeed before the bench."
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The lawyer responded, "But Justice Gogoi dismissed my plea relying on the statement that I had challenged for being illegal. I had no fault, I had requested CJI Thakur to move my review plea before a bench conversant with the labour laws. But that did not happen and it was dismissed." The Chief Justice then told the lawyer in Marathi that he cannot impugn a judge when he challenges a high court judgment.
Further, the Chief Justice said the registry would look at his petition but asked him to remove Justice Gogoi’s name from his petition.
