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A remarkable journey of an office boy |
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In 1960 a wide-eyed Parsi teenager with a slightly unkempt look first arrived at the plush law offices of Behramjee Jeejeebhoy in the Fort area of Mumbai, the stenographer Perin Driver thought he had probably lost his way. This young boy joined as an office boy to help the senior counsels with their heavy case briefs. His self-conscious demeanour would force me to wonder at times what this chap was doing in such a smart law firm,” says Driver, now in her 70s. This young boy came from a poor family and was born to a genteel, lower-middle-class Parsi family in the Girgaum area of South Mumbai. His father was a clerk in a defence establishment and his mother a housewife. A good higher education was a luxury. He started its career as a class 1V employee but he was determined to study law and write competitive examination to become a judge. But before that he has to ensure that he earned enough to support his father and finance his younger brother’s studies before he could start his journey as a lawyer. Last week, that ambition scaled its peak when this humble Parsi boy from Mumbai , Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia, was sworn in as the 38th Chief Justice of India. |
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But those who knew him and worked with him in his early days feel Kapadia’s journey from South Mumbai to Central Delhi is nothing but remarkable. According to his colleagues from earlier days “It was just his single-minded ambition that took him from genteel poverty to the country’s apex court.” Justice Kapadia is a very knowledgeable man with intense wisdom over various issues. He has also received great compliments for his tax laws knowledge. Huge responsibility awaits the CJI as he has to reduce the pending cases from various high courts and trials. Justice Kapadia wrote in a letter to V R Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court Judge as a reply to his congratulatory letter saying, "I come from a poor family. I started my career as a class IV employee and the only asset I possess is integrity. Even as a judge of the Supreme Court, I have used my knowledge of accounts and economics for the welfare of the downtrodden including tribals and workmen. I hope to fulfill my obligation to the Constitution in the matter of achieving the goal of inclusive growth." |
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