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Description
This book contains reminiscences of the Author as Juidge for twenty-five years. Apart from a few travelogue and acquaintances with personages, the descriptions are live stories of human life displayed in different courts where he was judge. The author has avoided narrating matrimonial disputes due to statutory constraints. The narratives have been recollected from memory. Yet care was taken to mention only true facts, though all truths are not included, lest, it might injure the feelings of others. This is intended only for the readers to have easy reading on some interesting episodes of human life
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Contents
1. The raison d'etre of the nomenclature
2. Ascension as a Judge
3. Moulding up into Judgeship
4. The first murder case tried in my Court
5. Calicut District Court
6. Back in Calicu
7. Betheri Case
8. A case of double infanticide
9. How a submerged equity winched to the fore
10. Medical Insanity Vs. Legal Insanity
11. Winding up life in Calicut
12. District Judge, Quilon
13. The Dead body giving birth to a child
14. Half burnt dead body of a pregnant woman
15. Two cases of restoration of gender justice
16. Assignments declined, but became a litigant
17. District and Sessions Judge, Trivandrum
18. Judge of the High Court
19. Nascency on the Bench of the High Court
20. A few among the memorable cases
21. Divorces granted by Church Tribunals
22. Non-Brahmins as priests of temples
23. Elected Panchayats were restored in Kerala
24. Attempt to plunder public money with legal protection was averted
25. A Professor escaped from disaster
26. What is the right of litigants to occupy seats in court rooms ?
27. Re-writing a judgment
28. King of Saudi Arabia as defendant
29. As a senior judge of the High Court
30. As Chief Justice (Officiating)
31. Pangs of elevation
32. Farewell from High Court
33. Becoming Judge of the Supreme Court of India
34. Ostracised bungalow to reside in and a scholarly companion to walk with
35. Settings in the early days of judgeship in the Supreme Court
36. The travails of a non-resident husband
37. Eleven Judge bench and minority rights
38. Sitting with the Chief Justice of India
39. Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
40. The fall of a Rajasthani bride from the top floor of a multi-storied building
41. The Extortionists of Bow Bazar in Calcutta
42. A treasure hunt
43. Regarding treatment of witnesses
44. Can the destiny be so cruel to a damsel ?
45. A charlatan in black robe
46. An Advocate was convicted for contempt of court
47. Travelogue
48. Attack on the Parliament House fizzled out
49. The last sitting as a Judge
50. Prelude to departure
51. Farewell to Law
Epilogue
Index
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Justice K.T. Thomas was a former judge of the supreme Court of India. He was directly recruited from the Bar as District judge and after eight years elevated as high Court Judge. After being judge of the supreme Court for six years he retired in 2002.
After retirement he was appointed chairman of different Commissions such as, for recommending reforms of police performance, for recommending reforms in the law regarding prevention of destruction of public properties and lastly the Commission for National Law School Bangalore. He is now Honorary Professor in Kannur University on Constitutional Importance at different centre in India.
The President of India conferred Padma Bhushan Award on him for Law and Justice on the Republic Day 2007. He has already authored three books in his vernacular.
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