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Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai’s chill countenance to brushwood speech an entity hurled astatine him portion asking rattled lawyers to proceed with tribunal proceedings without missing a bushed connected Monday is reminiscent of an incidental erstwhile different Chief Justice of India, Justice M. Hidayatullah, utilized his beingness of caput to wrestle a knife-wielding assailant successful the aforesaid tribunal country 57 years agone to prevention his chap justice Justice A.N. Grover’s life.
The incidental happened connected March 13, 1968, erstwhile a three-judge Bench headed by CJI Hidayatullah was delivering a judgement aft proceeding a civilian appeal.
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Besides Justice Grover, Justice Vaidialingam was besides portion of the Bench presiding implicit the sitting astatine the Chief Justice’s tribunal room.
Justice Hidayatullah narrated successful his memoir ‘My Own Boswell’ astir noticing a antheral pushing his mode guardant to the judges’ dais, shoving speech the tribunal authoritative taking down the judgement successful shorthand and climbing connected apical of the tribunal master’s array earlier heaving himself onto the judges’ Bench.
He had opened a flick-knife by then. Justice Hidayatullah grabbed a immense inkstand with an volition to “smash the assailant’s look if helium came adjacent me”.
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Rumble successful the tribunal room
Justice Vaidialingam tried to propulsion the antheral disconnected the table. Justice Grover was attempting to scope the doorway erstwhile the assailant attacked him.
Justice Hidayatullah dropped the inkstand to grapple with the antheral to prevention Justice Grover, who had already suffered a stroke to the backmost of his head. An adjunct librarian jumped into the tussle to clasp the antheral by the waist. Finally, the Chief Justice managed to tilt the knife’s borderline into a heavy carpet, wherever it was buried securely, earlier a constabulary serviceman cuffed the assailant.
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Chief Justice Hidayatullah said helium had asked the constabulary serviceman to not manhandle the assailant. “The antheral heard this and looked strangely astatine maine with softness successful his eyes. He antecedently looked similar a maniac,” the CJI had reminisced.
Minutes later, Chief Justice Hidayatullah and Justice Vaidialingam drove Justice Grover to the Wellingdon Hospital for attraction for a scalp wound.
A study by The Hindu had identified the assailant arsenic Manmohan Das, who was taken into custody by the police. The study said helium was stated to beryllium a “half mad-man” belonging to Mushirabad territory successful West Bengal.
