Supreme Court grills lawyers over electoral bonds

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“Don’t shout at me.” This is what happened at the Supreme Court hearing on electoral bonds…   : Supreme Court of India/YouTube.

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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.

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