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I had a client named Pappan Nair (Not real name) in the year 1999. He made an impression that he is having a genuine case and grievances. And for making such an impression, he consulted me 4 or 5 times before the filing of his divorce case. I was not at all aware or familiar with him at his first arrival which I still remember in my mind. One after noon at about 2 Pm when I returned from the court, a stout man with a heavy and terrible mustache having about 45 years of age was sitting on the staircase near to the corridor of my Office, and by his side a thin old man was snoring in a sitting posture. At the first glance I realized about their drunkenness. When I entered my office after passing them, they Hurley followed me, and the mustached man demanded me to prepare an urgent divorce petition against his wife and paramour and without any hesitation both sat on the client’s chair as my familiar clients.
The mustached man Pappan Nair introduced as an ex-service man then working as a guard at Trivandrum and the other aged as his neighbor and friend. He told me that his wife is having bad character, and his maternal uncle is keeping her with him at his residence 200 km away from Trivandrum. With the aid and support of the uncle, his wife filed several criminal cases against him and near relatives. He also stated that his wife named Radha left him 7 months back by locking their residence at Trivandrum after admitting their college going daughter in to a hostel. He added that his uncle is also the uncle of the wife i.e. the sister’s husband of the mother of the wife, and the issue less uncle had illicit relation with Radha prior to the marriage, and neighbors of the locality and relatives were well aware about them. He also stated the uncle caused him to marry Radha in a pretext to give all his landed properties to my client. On making his statements my client has been turning his neck to side and watching the expressions of his neighbor, and all the time the aged man nodded his head to emphasis that story. But the story was not fully digestible to me. When I told about any record against his wife and uncle, he hinted about a letter of his wife while in army service. I send him back to come with records. The next time he told about the missing of the old letter and queried about other valuable records necessary for his case. After about two months of his second visit he came to the office with a letter of his uncle of one month back to wife in Trivandrum Address contains filthy matters. He told me that the letter found out on a break open search in the residence at Trivandrum. Even though the letter had little help, I agree to file a divorce petition for my client and for taking my confidence he boarded a relative to my office in another occasion.
At the first posting date my client’s case, he called and informed me that he would directly come to the court since his bus from Trivandrum was late. But my client was absent at the time of roll call of his case and on submitting the reason for his absence unexpectedly a very old man, tall but hunchback, thin but weak on his walking stick stepped to the place of litigants on calling the names of respondents. He was making some noise but not clear to judge and me. On seeing the physical nature I was sure that the present man could not be the called paramour/co-respondent in the case. The judge was so humorous and his commend made a funny mess in the court hall that “he never be able as the other man of the wife”. The judge asked about his age 3 times to end his ears, and in a loud voice he replied 89 years. But in my petition the co-adulterer’s age was stated only 68. At a sudden, a dark and stout lady rushed into the court hall and stepped near to the old man and murmured loudly “false case, I will show him and his counsel for the same etc”. She was gasping and her long handbag, folding umbrella, scattered hairs and facial expression made an impression that she just arrived after a long journey. On seeing the lady the old man started to abuse her loudly by ignoring the place, and the judge was furious about the seen and adjourned the case to another day as irritated. When I get out from the court hall, my client was waiting for me in the corridor of the court hall and placed a question “how about my wife”. On walking through the corridor I asked him about the misrepresentation regarding the age of his uncle. With a hidden smile he explained that nobody would believe the truth and already one another advocate refused to file his case on knowing the age of his uncle. Just completing his answer a heavy hit with umbrella felt on his shoulder with a shouting voice from the back and a handling stud rolled over the floor by covering us. On my turning gaze, I could see his wife like a demon with handle less umbrella and the fast coming uncle behind her aim at his stick. At a sudden my client run away from the place without giving my fees, leaving me among the shouting and abusing rivals. Thereafter 4 or 5 posting dates for his case in six months gap, but he or his wife never appeared. Uncle filed strong objection against the contentions leveled against him in the petition, and the petition was dismissed on the continuous absence of the petitioner my client. In the mean time uncle had gifted out his landed property with residence at Trivandrum in the name of Radha. After a few years of the case the counsel appeared for the uncle told me that the husband and wife were in collusive cheated his client and misappropriated the property in the heart of the city having several millions of rupees value.
I had a client named Pappan Nair (Not real name) in the year 1999. He made an impression that he is having a genuine case and grievances. And for making such an impression, he consulted me 4 or 5 times before the filing of his divorce case. I was not at all aware or familiar with him at his first arrival which I still remember in my mind. One after noon at about 2 Pm when I returned from the court, a stout man with a heavy and terrible mustache having about 45 years of age was sitting on the staircase near to the corridor of my Office, and by his side a thin old man was snoring in a sitting posture. At the first glance I realized about their drunkenness. When I entered my office after passing them, they Hurley followed me, and the mustached man demanded me to prepare an urgent divorce petition against his wife and paramour and without any hesitation both sat on the client’s chair as my familiar clients.
The mustached man Pappan Nair introduced as an ex-service man then working as a guard at Trivandrum and the other aged as his neighbor and friend. He told me that his wife is having bad character, and his maternal uncle is keeping her with him at his residence 200 km away from Trivandrum. With the aid and support of the uncle, his wife filed several criminal cases against him and near relatives. He also stated that his wife named Radha left him 7 months back by locking their residence at Trivandrum after admitting their college going daughter in to a hostel. He added that his uncle is also the uncle of the wife i.e. the sister’s husband of the mother of the wife, and the issue less uncle had illicit relation with Radha prior to the marriage, and neighbors of the locality and relatives were well aware about them. He also stated the uncle caused him to marry Radha in a pretext to give all his landed properties to my client. On making his statements my client has been turning his neck to side and watching the expressions of his neighbor, and all the time the aged man nodded his head to emphasis that story. But the story was not fully digestible to me. When I told about any record against his wife and uncle, he hinted about a letter of his wife while in army service. I send him back to come with records. The next time he told about the missing of the old letter and queried about other valuable records necessary for his case. After about two months of his second visit he came to the office with a letter of his uncle of one month back to wife in Trivandrum Address contains filthy matters. He told me that the letter found out on a break open search in the residence at Trivandrum. Even though the letter had little help, I agree to file a divorce petition for my client and for taking my confidence he boarded a relative to my office in another occasion.
At the first posting date my client’s case, he called and informed me that he would directly come to the court since his bus from Trivandrum was late. But my client was absent at the time of roll call of his case and on submitting the reason for his absence unexpectedly a very old man, tall but hunchback, thin but weak on his walking stick stepped to the place of litigants on calling the names of respondents. He was making some noise but not clear to judge and me. On seeing the physical nature I was sure that the present man could not be the called paramour/co-respondent in the case. The judge was so humorous and his commend made a funny mess in the court hall that “he never be able as the other man of the wife”. The judge asked about his age 3 times to end his ears, and in a loud voice he replied 89 years. But in my petition the co-adulterer’s age was stated only 68. At a sudden, a dark and stout lady rushed into the court hall and stepped near to the old man and murmured loudly “false case, I will show him and his counsel for the same etc”. She was gasping and her long handbag, folding umbrella, scattered hairs and facial expression made an impression that she just arrived after a long journey. On seeing the lady the old man started to abuse her loudly by ignoring the place, and the judge was furious about the seen and adjourned the case to another day as irritated. When I get out from the court hall, my client was waiting for me in the corridor of the court hall and placed a question “how about my wife”. On walking through the corridor I asked him about the misrepresentation regarding the age of his uncle. With a hidden smile he explained that nobody would believe the truth and already one another advocate refused to file his case on knowing the age of his uncle. Just completing his answer a heavy hit with umbrella felt on his shoulder with a shouting voice from the back and a handling stud rolled over the floor by covering us. On my turning gaze, I could see his wife like a demon with handle less umbrella and the fast coming uncle behind her aim at his stick. At a sudden my client run away from the place without giving my fees, leaving me among the shouting and abusing rivals. Thereafter 4 or 5 posting dates for his case in six months gap, but he or his wife never appeared. Uncle filed strong objection against the contentions leveled against him in the petition, and the petition was dismissed on the continuous absence of the petitioner my client. In the mean time uncle had gifted out his landed property with residence at Trivandrum in the name of Radha. After a few years of the case the counsel appeared for the uncle told me that the husband and wife were in collusive cheated his client and misappropriated the property in the heart of the city having several millions of rupees value.
