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A legal feat on his last day in office

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: It was a unique record for the country’s judiciary when Cyriac Joseph, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, sat with nine different Benches and pronounced judgments on 56 cases.

This is perhaps the first time in the history of the Karnataka High Court that so many judgments were pronounced in a single court (in this case Court Hall no. 1) on a single day.

The judgments related to a Full Bench verdict on the policy of the State Government on Kannada language, holding elections to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike, permitting four students of MDS course to pursue their studies, challenge of Flamingo International against Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) relating to duty-free shops and a petition on the transfer of Doordarshan Director Mahesh Joshi.

All the judgments were rendered in the open court between 12-30 p.m. and 1.40 p.m.

Only one pronouncement had to be held back as the court felt that the respondents should have been given an opportunity to address their arguments.

Legal sources say that the only similar legal feat was performed by the former Chief Justice of India Rajendra Babu who pronounced several judgments the day he was scheduled to lay down office.

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