The Typewriter Still Works -The Story Of A Judge Who Presided Over India's Most Sensational Trial
Live LawI have only re-read one book. Bibhabati Debi, who had steadfastly refused to even meet her "husband", would have her case pleaded by Calcutta high society's coveted member, Amiya Nath Chaudhary, younger brother of the famous Calcutta barrister Sir Ashutosh Chaudhari. Barrister Chaudhary would go on to mockingly describe Judge Basu as "the Dacca Shakespeare", something which Justice Biswas who with Justice Costello would affirm Basu's verdict, found most disapproving. Prema Nandakumar, while reviewing Partha Chatterjee's Prince and the Sanyasi states "Unswayed by public opinion for or against the sanyasi, Pannalal Basu conducted the case with clinical accuracy and delivered a judgment that can be described only as a superhuman feat for "even the admittedly impressive standards of legal loquacity in India, the volume of evidence produced in the Bhowal case was unprecedented."" Justice Biswas of the Calcutta High Court would go on to write: "I have read and re-read his judgment several times over, and it is no small tribute to the care, thoroughness and vigilant attention he brought to the consideration of the case that I was unable to trace a single error of fact in his statements…When I think of the time I have taken in preparing my judgment, I cannot but be filled with admiration for the learned judge who was able to produce his in less than half that time, and be it remembered, was able to do so without the exceptional facilities of the printed record which were available to this court."
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