Sunday, August 31, 2014

Defects raised by the Supreme Court Registry in SLP bearing Diary No. 25532/2014

In a Special Leave Petition drafted by me and filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India bearing Diary No.25532/2014 challenging the Final Judgment and Order of the Hon'ble High court of Bombay at Panaji in Civil Application (Review) in Second Appeal No.24 of 2012.In the objection raised by the supreme court office,the court registry has held that A Power of Attorney holder cannot appear and argue before the supreme court on behalf of a party. And has also held that the application made by the litigant to engage the Power of Attorney Holder to appear and argue on behalf of her is not maintainable as such not to be filed.

I had to do the Drafting because we have experience with the advocates in the Hon'ble High Court  of Bombay at Panaji,they Refused to take up the case of my mother and further tried to misguide us.The Special Leave Petition has been filed by mother In-Person and she also filed an Application in the Special Leave Petition praying to the Hon'ble Supreme Court to allow me to appear and argue the Special Leave Petition before the Hon'ble Supreme Court on behalf of her.
 

The litigant herein is my mother a 55 year old primary marathi school teacher who cannot even spell “law”.

A number of High Court advocates in Goa had refused to take up her matter to file a review of a High court order in Second Appeal decided by the high court.The advocates engaged by her had conspired with the opposite party to let her case fail.

The review was then drafted and filed by me(I am her son) in the high court.In this process I had the first hand experience with the corruption in judiciary.lot of efforts were put in by the Advocates to convince us that our stand was wrong.the litigant (my mother) appeared before the Hon’ble High court in person, the matter was dismissed.

Then the special leave petition was drafted by me and was filed in the supreme court.

There are millions of people like my mother,may be more backward and illiterate,financially incapable for getting justice.

To file a case in the supreme court you have to spend more than 100,000/- so that the advocate just drafts and files your case, then for the advocates to just come and sit in the court during the hearings you have to pay him minimum of 50,000/- per hearing.

You can go little cheaper by engaging a fresher or advocate who is just starting with the career,but these inexpensive advocates get ‘purchase’ by the advocates of the opposite party.

Now coming to the point, if such a litigant cannot afford the advocates, cannot he authorize any person whom the litigant has faith in, to appear and argue before the supreme court on his behalf??.

The supreme court registry says, no you cannot!!

But

The supreme court has itself in various judgments and in the matter of Janaki Vasudeo Bhojwani Vs. IndusInd Bank Ltd. AIR 2005 SC 439 has held that a power of attorney holder can appear, argue and act on behalf of the party.


It is a different case that though my mother is not aware of the laws and not aware of the procedures of the courts.I can very well deal with the objections raised by the Supreme Court registry.I was just wondering of what the common man will do in such situations,he has no choice but to engage an advocate.


 





Thursday, August 21, 2014

Corruption in Indian Judiciary.

Any act of corruption or judicial misconduct by the Judges cannot take place in any court without involvement of the court registry and the court staff.

Beginning from the security outside the courts, all of the court staff provides strategic support to the corrupt judges to carry out their tasks.

Actually there is no need for the judges to involve the staff when the litigant has engaged advocate to fight for him and to get justice. Because the advocate will always do what the judge tells him.

The judge will face problems only in case the litigant decides to not to engage the advocate and pursue the case himself, which is very rare considering the arcane procedures of the courts.

In case a litigant somehow approaches the court in-person, the judge has no choice but to subtly prevent the litigant from pursuing his case, for this the court staff is used. manipulation of the notice board of the case listings by of omission to list the case on a particular day or to number the case in such a way that the case  won’t be taken up for hearing for that day is done by the court staff on the directions of the judge, so that the litigant gets exhausted of coming and sitting in the court room for weeks and months without being heard, till he decides to engage an advocate so that the judge and advocate can decide what arguments the advocate should put forward before the judge and what to decide.

nowadays the daily cause lists of the courts are displayed on the websites of the courts which makes it convenient for the litigants to know their hearing date and time.As it is not possible for a litigant to visit the courts every day to check out the cause list displayed on the notice boards to find out whether his case will be heard on that day or not. as such the litigant always try to get the date and time of his case hearing from the cause list published on the website of the court.This fact is sometimes used by the Judges to make sure that the litigant is prevented from attending his case,by manipulating the cause lists on the website of the court.This may be done either by entering wrong dates or time of hearing or altogether making the status of that particular case disappear i.e to manually delete the case information. If the litigant misses a hearing because of this, it is a valid reason to dismiss the case outright.

This all happens after the case is registered, sometimes the case filed by the litigant is not even allowed to be registered, the court staff coerces the litigant enough so that he approaches the advocate to file his case.

If somehow the case is registered,heard and  is finally decided the next job of the court staff is to cause delay in providing the certified copy of the judgment so as to TRY to prevent the litigant from appealing of challenging the decision in higher court. If the litigant is ignorant of the procedures, he succumbs to such tactics. I was once asked to not to come to even enquire about the status of my application for certified copy of the judgment in one case, unless the judgment is uploaded on the courts website, that judgment though as of today i have received the certified copy, is still not uploaded on the courts website.

In the supreme court of India you won’t come across such manipulations, since as  per my opinion the supreme court has always been protecting the rights of the people of this country and ensured justice to them by its various landmark decisions wherein most of the times the Hon’ble supreme court has reversed the decisions of the High court’s and other lower courts. According to me it is also not possible for the Court staff of the Supreme Court of India to indulge into such misdeeds due to the very high standing of the Supreme Court.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Filing Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court,against Judgment & Final order of the High Court of bombay at panaji Bench in Civil Application Review No.11 of 2014

The Hon'ble High Court of Bombay at Goa in the final order and judgment of Civil Application Review No.11 of 2014 titled Vijaya Gajanan Naik V/s Suresh Basu Naik and Othrs declared that an Article 1565 of the Portuguese civil Code which belongs to the chapter of Portuguese civil code titled the "Contract of Sale",is in actuality provision of succession law.

The Petitioner in the Special Leave Petition has disputed the decision of the Hon'ble High court of bombay at Goa.The Petitioner has claimed that article 1565 of the Portuguese civil code in no way deals with succession as it clearly speaks about contract between parents and childrens(only contract between parents and majors childrens is valid as per the Indian Contract Act),and that whole chapter of contracts in portuguese civil code is repealed by the Indian Contracts Act.

Even if it is assumed that the Decision of the High Court is correct,it will be surprising to know that the said Article 1565 of the portuguese civil code or the provision of succession law as declared by the high court does not exists in any legal publication in the state of Goa even after 58 years of liberation from the portuguese regime.

further the only Case Reporter of the Goa ,that is the Goa Law Times did not include the landmark judgments of Second Appeal No.24 of 2012 Vijaya Gajanan Naik V/s Suresh Basu Naik and Othrs ,which the petitioner had also tried to review  in the high court vide Her Review Application in Civil Application Review No.11 of 2014.

Another Judgment of the Hon'ble high court titled Shri Norberto Paulo Sebastiao Fernandes and Others V/s Shri Gabriel Sebastiao Idalino Fernandes and Others in Second Appeal No.3 of 2006 which has also upheld the Article1565 of the portuguese Civil Code is also not reported in the Goa Law Times by its publishers. 

The Special Leave Petition was filed relying on the Decision of the Hon'ble Supreme court in Syndicate Bank v. Praba D Naik and Anr. Wherein the Hon'ble supreme Court has declared a law that a single provision from a repealed chapter of Portuguese Civil Code cannot sustain,either a chapter exists in its entirely or not,there is no half way about it.

you can download the Draft of Special Leave Petition for reference  here