Senior Supreme Court Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul retired on Friday.
In this way his 6-year tenure in the Supreme Court ended. On this occasion, a farewell program was organized for Justice Kaul.
The country’s Chief Justice DY Chandrachud looked emotional during this time. He bid farewell to his colleague and friend of more than 47 years in a special way.
Reiterating some lines of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, he said, ‘Maqaida is desolate, Khum-o-Sagar is sad. What are you doing that you are upset about the spring days?
Recalling the past, the Chief Justice said, ‘I first met Justice Kaul at St. Stephen’s College.
We were in the first batch after the Emergency. We had countless discussions in the canteen and our shared love for theater made us friends.
Recalling his college days, the Chief Justice said, ‘Kaul contested the student elections and we supported him. I was strong in studies, so I was entrusted with the task of preparing their manifesto. In those days Sanjay had a red colored standard car. One day he met with an accident. We thought that this would get us sympathy votes but it did not happen.
‘Justice Kaul did not want to study law but…’
Kaul and Chandrachud met at Delhi University’s Campus Law Center after graduating from St. Stephen’s, where they were batchmates and earned law degrees from there.
Chief Justice said, ‘Sanjay used to make notes during LLB which were very famous among the students. However, he never made his notes in an exercise book because he was worried that if someone took it, he would not return it.
Whenever someone asked him for notes, he used to ask him which class he had bunked and used to give the same notes for him. He said, ‘I am fortunate that Kaul decided to study law which was not his first choice. He was very fond of travelling. He wanted to be a part of the Indian Foreign Service but the then Chief Justice BN Kirpal convinced him for law.