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Death of A Lawyer

               Adv Manoharrao Gomare Saheb  Everyday thousands of people die around the world but we care only then when someone near to us is no more.  People come and people go.  It does not change our life.  But some people change our life and the way of our thinking.   The one such person i have seen in my life is Advocate Manoharrao Gomare Saheb. Adv Manoharrao Gomare Saheb died on 20th December 2023 by old age.  Manoharrao Gomare Saheb was a civil advocate practicing in Latur District Court.  I did not have a personal interaction or talk with him ever. But I have seen his life very closely.  My introduction to him was of less than three years.  I listened him for the first time at Latur District Bar liabrary during his autobiography book inauguration.   A polite man with a poetic heart. Mother died after giving him birth. He couldn't see his mother's face also. In his many sad poems he has tried to picture his mother's face.  After the mother's death he was raised

निर्दोष आबेद खान की कहानी

आबेद खान मूलसे हैदराबाद का रहने वाले था लेकिन काम के लिए वह गुलबर्गा आया था। वह अपनी पत्नी आयशा और नवजात बेटी के साथ किराए के कमरे में रहता था। वह कम पढ़ा लिखा और भोला था। आबेद की पत्नी आयशा हैदराबाद की रहने वाली थीं. आयेशा की उदगीर के सलीम के साथ विवाहेतर लैंगिक संबंध थे। आयशा ने आबेद को उदगीर आकर वहां काम करने को कहा. आबेद और उसकी पत्नी आयशा उदगीर आकर सलीम के घर में रहने लगे।                Illustrative picture only  आयशा का प्रेमी सलीम एक चोर था. वह सामान चुराकर अपने घर में रखता था। उसने गाडी की कुछ बैटरियां चुरा लीं और अपने घर में रख लीं। पुलिस को जैसे ही उसके ठिकाने के बारे में जानकारी मिली और फिर सलीम और आबेद की पत्नी आयशा दोनों उदगीर छोड़कर भाग गए। घर में सो रहे मासूम आबेद खान को उदगीर पुलिस ने चोरी के मामले में गिरफ्तार किया। जिस घर में आबेद रह रहा था, वहां से चोरी की बैटरियां बरामद कर ली गईं। पुलिस ने आबेद खान के खिलाफ कई एफआईआर दर्ज कीं। एमसीआर के बाद आबेद को लातूर जिला जेल भेज दिया गया। जब भी मैं जेल जाता था आबेद जमानत के लिए बिनती करता हुआ मुझे दिखाई देता था। उसके खिलाफ चोर

The Matrimonial Ads

The ads called "matrimonials" in India are aimed at finding appropriate spouse.  The ads run under such headings as Brahmin, Kshetriya or any professionals like doctors, engineers etc.  Some of India's leading newspapers like The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Loksatta, Dainik  Jagran etc public matrimonial ads every weekend. The ads are split evenly between the "Grooms Wanted For" and "Brides Wanted For" sections.  The recent examples of ads like, "A beautiful girl, 28 years old, educated, caste no bar is looking for a well settled man, own house, living in city".  The similar other ads in 'Brides wanted section' published like - The modern boy, 28/165, Medium build, smart, Civil Engr working in metro city having a rational progressive and liberal outlook seeks an educated, beautiful and preferably professionally qualified girl with similar outlook."  The days when people used to arrange marriages is gone.  Marriage ha

MY JAIL VISIT EXPERIENCE

          Latur District Jail in Nandgaon On 26th July 2023, I visited Latur District Jail at Nandgaon.  After I have been appointed as a Assistant Legal Aid Defence Counsel in Latur District Court, I have a duty to visit district jail on every Wednesday and ask the prisoners their problems relating to trial, remand and bail. That day for the first time I saw a jail. Jail is not a good place.  Jail or prison is one of the worst thing on this earth. There exist good as well as bad people in this world. Some people are honest, hard working, polite and moral. Whereas, other take the path of immortality and crime. They commit theft, robbery, murder, kidnapping, rape, violence and disturb the peace in the society. Such people are sent to jail as a punishment. It is the state's preventive measure to keep society peaceful and prevent the wrongdoer from commiting crime again.  There are around 366 prisoners in Latur District Jail.  Most are undertrials who are waiting for their final ju

The Convict Who Wrote A Dictionary

             Spread on the table in front of him were sheets of paper, a pot of ink, a small knife and a quill. NIGHT HAD FALLEN on the new penal settlement north of Sydney town. It was June 1812 and its name, Newcastle, had just been proclaimed – or rather, borrowed from the coal port in northeastern England – as the permanent replacement for the earlier title of Coal River. The long, low wooden barracks was in darkness except for a flickering glow that could be seen through a small open window at one end. The light was coming from a candle sputtering on the table at which the convict residents had eaten their evening meal. Still sitting there was a man of 30 wearing the grey flannel of a convict. Spread on the table in front of him were sheets of paper, a pot of ink, a small knife and a quill. This was James Hardy Vaux, and he was writing Australia’s first dictionary. Born in 1782, Vaux grew up in the Shropshire market town of Shifnal. His father worked as a butler in a grand English

Live in Relationship in India

Live-in relationship is GOOD. Live in relationship is an arrangement where two people are not married but live together in one house. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. The Supreme Court said that an adult couple can be in a Live in relationship even when the man's age is below 21 years, the legal age for marriage. A survey found out that in Mumbai, about 50% of the couples in the 20-28 age group are in live-ins. But, 70% breakup within 2 years.  Following are the advantages of live in relationship: 1. Likes dislikes, and behaviour of a partner can be known in a better way.  2. Couples can analyse whether their relationship  will be compatible in the future or not.  3. Divorce rate will gradually decrease.  4. Breaking up after marriage is more difficult than breaking up before marriage.  5. Marriage will not be due to family pressure or social obligations.  6. A sense of understanding and maturity is developed

Democracy in Crisis

Abraham Lincoln once said, "Democracy means government of the people, for the people and by the people". Democracy is the best government because no other form of government is better than this.  Democracy is in crisis all over the world. The civil rights of people, free speech, free press, the rule of law, independence of judiciary all is under crisis all over the world. The totalitarian regimes are emerging. Popular leaders are taking nation towards dictatorship. India is not exception to this.  The ruling party's government is taking nation towards the dictatorship. It used ths state institutions like ED and CBI to harass the opposition leaders.  Central party's main goal is to become the one party state in India. It has toppled many State governments with money power. They are trying best to finish local parties in the States.  The democratically elected Shivsena government in Maharashtra was toppled by the BJP. Wherever they get less seats they purchase the elect