24.12.2014 People, when choosing to embark on a profession do that with a noble ideal of performing his duties to utmost perfection. When a man enters politics he goes in with the idea of serving the people and the nation. When a filmmaker launches his film he comes in with the intention of making an ideal film with aesthetic sense and a noble message. But after getting into the field, whatever is the nature of the field or profession seems, his ideals are watered down by his need to survive the unhealthy competition in the chosen field. . Even if I could not be ruled out as a failure, I could not have laid claim to roaring success in my early practice. On a single day there were two judgments in cases defended by me. In one case 20 women, wives of illegal toddy-tappers, were sentenced imprisonments. In reality there was some sort of arrangement with the police where wives were charge sheeted instead of husbands. In another case four housebreakers defended by me were not only acquitted but the stolen property was ordered to be returned to them. I was terribly upset by the kind of service I was providing in the matter of administration of justice and wanted to quit. I went to a nearby city Mathurai, which was our district head quarters, and joined a postgraduate course doing part time legal practice. On one of those days when I was in Mathurai, a famous politician named Muthu Ramalinga Thevar, who was founder president of a political party called Forward Block; started by a famous Bengali-Indian Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose, was arrested in a murder case. This Subash Bose was the great man who raised Indian National Army to fight for India’s freedom teaming with Hitler and the Japanese. This leader arrested for the murder of another political leader, whose character or real involvement in the crime are not relevant to our purpose of presenting the legal chronicle of a small time lawyer, happened to be a friend of my father in their freedom fighting days against the British Rule. Seeing his friend’s son ambling along the street he asked the police to stop the Jeep, as he wanted to speak to his lawyer. He instructed me to ask my father to move for his release on bail. To convince the police that he was talking to a lawyer and not just a road side Romeo, he said, “you also appear along with your father,” which was fair enough. That was a time when my father as a politician belonged to the ruling Congress party while Mr. Thevar was in the Opposition. My father declined to take up his case as it would be opposed to his political ethics. Since I had the instruction from the “horse’s mouth” I filed a bail application before the court where the First Information Report was filed. I also moved for the court to give me the copy of the FIR register where serial order of numbers were corrected where after entry no 10 was after entry no7 and entry no. 8 &9 came after entry no 10 and the time of receipt scored and re written after the time of entry of FIR no 8 and 9. I gave press statement that the FIR in case was originally entered as no 8 and was taken back to file a fresh FIR to include the name of political leader Mr. Thevar. This seems to have influenced the litigant public to assume if Charuhasan was good enough for a political leader of repute then he is good enough for anybody. There was no looking back for me from that day. There was another aspect that made me popular among the litigant client and lawyers. One senior lawyer sent a complaint to the grievance committee of the Bar council that I have filed appearance to a political leader without authority. The Bar Council sent me a show cause notice. I took the show cause notice to the prison to Mr. Thevar and he gave press statement that young Mr. Charuhasan is also his authorized lawyer; among others. This boosted my status, and there I was a leader of the criminal bar, to the consternation of the rest of the lawyers including my father. Most of my colleagues and the bench had their own doubt about my proficiency as an advocate, and were a little nonplussed about the propriety of my becoming the leader of the bar. They thought it to be lack of imagination of The Creator, to have bestowed the briefs and clients, on a person of such inadequate talent in the matter of advocacy. They blamed the judge whenever I won a case. Near relations considered me to be a thorn in my parent’s flesh, and introduced me as such to the world at large as I did not confirm to their moral code which included cheating God with flattery on a regular basis and offering Him graft in cash and kind so that they can get away with their malfeasance
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 07:42:28 +0000
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