A vacation Bench of Justices PV Sanjay Kumar and Prasanna B Varale made the observation after a lawyer sought an adjournment of a civil appeal filed in 2017 as the arguing counsel was unwell.
“Why do you not argue for him? Are you not attached to his office? Do you not read office pleadings?” Justice Kumar asked the lawyer.
The advocate answered that he was not aware of the facts of the case as he had not read the case brief.
This led Justice Kumar to observe,
“After 2019, this matter is coming up now. The lawyers are not ready to argue. What is this? Yesterday we sat till 12:30 PM and today I do not even think we would be able to sit till 12. Then courts are blamed for delay. We are sitting in vacation but nobody is here to argue.”
Source: Barandbench
