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New Delhi, May 20
Justice L Nageswara Rao—who acted in lots of movies and TV serials as a younger man – was given a heat send-off by judges and legal professionals on Friday.
“Judges are not monks and work pressure sometimes gets to them as well,” Justice Rao, the fifth senior-most decide of the Supreme Court, mentioned on the final working day.
Justice Rao – who was appointed as a decide of the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016 — would formally demit workplace on June 7.
It was a revelation of kinds for a lot of legal professionals when a number of the legal professionals mentioned Justice Rao had acted in movies.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Attorney General KK Venugopal, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh and plenty of different senior legal professionals wished him a wholesome, comfortable and lively life.
“I have been a member of this Bar for 22 years and it is all your love and affection that have made my job very easy. I had a very smooth ride. Thank you very much. Even today I feel that that side (advocates’) is much better than this side and given a chance, I would be there for my lifetime. Thank you very much. It has been a good sojourn for me. I have learnt from brother and sister judges and I hope that I live up to your expectations because I am from this Bar,” mentioned Justice Rao, the seventh within the historical past of the Supreme Court to be instantly elevated from the Bar.
Describing his tenure of greater than six years as a decide a “good sojourn”, he apologised to these with whom he was unintentionally harsh throughout court docket proceedings.
“If I have been harsh in the court and if I have hurt somebody, I apologise for that. Please understand that the job is such that we have to decide in favour of one person and there would be the other side who would definitely not be happy with what we did. And the pressure of work sometimes gets to us because we are not monks. I know that I have raised my voice a few times at least to drown the voices of lawyers,” Justice Rao mentioned.
The CJI indicated that Justice Rao could be heading the Hyderabad worldwide arbitration centre after demitting workplace.
An LL.B. from Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Justice Rao acquired enrolled as an advocate in 1982 on the Bar Council of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
He shifted to the Andhra Pradesh High Court and remained there until December 1994. From January 1995 to May 2016, he practiced as a lawyer on the Supreme Court and have become a senior advocate after which Additional Solicitor General.
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