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Thursday, September 11, 2014

"I am a teetotaller but even I see no logic ...how do you distinguish here?"‏

 "Pay the amount due to the employees"

This one sentence in the order of the Supreme Court of India to L I C of India in the case relating to pre-01/08/1997 LIC pensioners has stuck in my throat.
Ever since then the highest court in the land, the repository of distilled wisdom, has helped enliven many a tedious hour of mine with its pronouncements/orbiter dicta/whatever and one such gem appears in column No.1 on the front page of today (Thurs., SEP 11, 2014)'s "The Hindu" :
    
 "No logic in Kerala bar closure : SC
      Krishnadas Rajagopal
     NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the logic behind the Kerala Government's new liquor policy under which 730 bars are being shut down while letting those in five-star hotels function.
     "There is no logic. What do you mean by substandard [ a reference to 418 bars closed earlier as the government found them substandard]? I am a teetotaller but even I see no logic ...how do you distinguish here?" Justice Anil R.Dave said. ............."
(Emphasis supplied --- P.Ramanathan)
     I understand Justice Anil to mean that if he were not a teetotaller and were a tippler instead, it would have been possible for him to see the logic.
     Howzzat?! 

(P Ramanathan)