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At the motorboat of 2 books authored by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta astir humour successful the courtroom, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant connected Sunday (May 10, 2026) said the apical instrumentality serviceman indispensable present crook his regard to the Indian judicial strategy for his 3rd book.
The CJI said determination was “no dearth of comical tales from our ain region. In fact, I americium definite we person capable worldly successful Delhi itself to capable a library!”
The Chief Justice said helium would beryllium much than blessed to lend to specified an effort arsenic helium would beryllium little tight-lipped aft retirement.
Home Minister Amit Shah spoke astatine the motorboat of the books titled ‘The Bench, The Bar and The Bizarre’ and ‘The Lawful and The Awful’, which was attended by Supreme Court and High Court judges, instrumentality officers, elder advocates and others.
The CJI said helium flipped done the books and wondered however Mr. Mehta spared the clip to constitute amid his engaged schedule.
“So I tried to lick this mystery! I person 2 moving theories. Either Tushar Bhai has successfully petitioned the Almighty for a 25th hr successful the time and kept that bid strictly for himself, oregon helium has discovered that the champion clip for comedic penning is portion Court No. 1 is taking excessively agelong to work a record during a hearing. My money’s connected the latter!” the Chief Justice said.
The CJI said the books were replete with hilarious anecdotes and incidents Mr. Mehta had collected aft raiding instrumentality libraries, sifting done aged lawsuit files and digging retired obscure proceedings records that “read much similar sitcom scripts than somber documents”.
The CJI promised the assemblage that the tomes had everything from formal codification disasters, to AI hallucinations successful judgments and pleadings to drunk and disorderly conduct
“He presents baffled witnesses, judges with a flair for the dramatic, and lawyers caught successful the crossfire of their ain hysterical missteps… The courtroom is wherever theatre meets law, and everyone has a starring role,” the CJI said.
Chief Justice Kant lightly remarked that Mr. Mehta’s deliberate omission of the Indian Bench from his publication was astir apt not conscionable editorial discretion, but really his “heightened endurance instinct”.
“You see, Tushar Bhai knows that if helium wrote astir our quirks, his adjacent ‘mentioning’ would person been outrightly rejected successful Court No. 1 [Chief Justice of India’s courtroom] without the scope of a reappraisal petition!” Chief Justice Kant said.
