Would you like some rule of law with that, sir?
If you have always wondered what formalisms and archaic legal expressions echo in the rarefied chambers of the abode of justice, how about a couple of quotes from an Indian Supreme Court judge who wants to string people up by lamp posts?
“The only way to rid the country of corruption is to hang a few of you on the lamp post. The law does not permit us to do it but otherwise we would prefer to hang people like you at the lamp post,” a Bench of Justices S B Sinha and Markandeya Katju remarked during arguments put forth by counsel for an accused.
As counsel R Singh, tried to make some submission Justice Katju further said, “Everywhere, we have corruption. Nothing is free from corruption. Everybody wants to loot this country. The only solution for this menace is to hang some people in the public so that it acts as a deterrent on others.”