“Don’t shout at me.” This is what happened at the Supreme Court hearing on electoral bonds…
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00:00I am a citizen of this country.
00:01One second.
00:02Yes.
00:03Don't shout at me.
00:04This is not a hyper-corner meeting.
00:05Okay.
00:06You are in the court.
00:07Lordships sit in kind of a silos.
00:10The lordships are not allowed in an ivory tower, not allowed in a negative sense of
00:14the term.
00:15Our court has an institutional role to play in a polity which is governed by the constitution,
00:20the rule of law.
00:22I will prove it.
00:29My submission is entered.
00:30The judgement has been entered behind the back of the public at large.
00:33This judgement doesn't constitute residue data.
00:34One second.
00:35One second.
00:36One second.
00:37Please listen to me.
00:38I am a citizen of this country.
00:39One second.
00:40One second.
00:41Please listen to me.
00:42I am a citizen of this country.
00:43One second.
00:44Yes.
00:45Don't shout at me.
00:46No, I am very soft.
00:47Please listen to me.
00:48Yes.
00:49This is not a Hyde Park corner meeting, you are in the court, you want to move an application,
00:56file an application.
00:57What I told Mr. Rohatgi applies to you.
00:59No, no, the question is, my friend has come.
01:03Mr. Nirumbara, one second, you have got my decision as Chief Justice, we are not hearing
01:09you.
01:10If you want to file an application, file an application, move it on the email, that's
01:13the rule in this court.
01:14We will go by whatever your Lordship says, we will go by that.
01:21Your Lordship will go by whatever your Lordship says, I have said what I wanted to say.
01:26That this gentleman is running behind the back of the people of this country.
01:29It doesn't bind us, it doesn't constitute us, it is not a…
01:33Please, do not, please, once we have said no, please move the application on the email,
01:39do not continue and persist on.
01:41I only said it was not a representative proceedings.
01:44Nirumbara, you are obstructing the administration of justice.
01:47You are obstructing the process of administration of justice.
01:51The entire gentleman is behind the back of these people, Parliament has been run by…
01:56That's all.
01:57That's all.
01:58My Lord, may I mention, my petition for Sumoto, that is pending, whatever Lordship want to
02:05do, that do only, I will not disturb Lordship.
02:09Mr. Agarwala, apart from being a senior council, you are the president of the SCBA, you know
02:16the procedure, you have written a letter to me asking me to invoke my Sumoto jurisdiction.
02:21Yes, yes my Lord.
02:22I have no locus to mention…
02:23So that I should not disturb Lordship, we should not waste the honourable time, court's
02:28time.
02:29That's why.
02:30Only that.
02:31These are all publicity-oriented.
02:32We will not permit it.
02:33Whatever Lordship will feel better.
02:34Mr. Agarwala, please keep it at that, I may have to say something more which will be perhaps
02:43little distasteful.
02:44My Lord, your Lordships sit in kind of a silos, your Lordships are my Lord, in an ivory tower,
02:50not my Lord, in a negative sense of the term, but what we know here, my Lord, your Lordships
02:55never come to know.
02:56The way in which your Lordships' judgement is playing out, my Lord, something your Lordships
03:02must be informed as highest court of the country.
03:06The application comes of the SPI before your Lordships on 11th of this month, my Lord,
03:11and your Lordships also, my Lord, that's how my Lord, we understood, clarified the position.
03:17But most serious things, my Lord, start happening thereafter.
03:22Lord, those before the court started giving press interviews, deliberately embarrassing
03:30the courts, my Lord, and there is a non-level playing field, my Lord, on this side, nobody
03:35can revert that.
03:36Neither government can do nor state bank can do, nobody else can do.
03:41Thereafter, my Lord, a series, a barrage of social media posts, my Lord, at least intended
03:49to cause embarrassment started during these two days.
03:54The question is, would your Lordships consider issuing a direction which has a necessary
03:59and inevitable fallout, which the court would not be able to control?
04:03Mr. Solicitor, we are only concerned about enforcing the direction which we issued in
04:10clauses B and C of Tara 221.
04:12As judges, we decide according to the constitution.
04:17We are governed by the rule of law.
04:19We are also the subject matter of comment in the social media and the press.
04:24But surely, as an institution, our shoulders are broad enough.
04:28No, no, I am saying, our court has an institutional role to play in a polity which is governed
04:35by the constitution, the rule of law.