Lucknow, February 27 A judge of the Allahabad High Court recorded his inability to pronounce the verdict in a case after a long day of hearings, stating, "Since I am feeling hungry, tired, and physically unable to pronounce the judgment, the judgment is reserved."
This happened on Tuesday, when Justice Subhash Vidyarthi of the high court's Lucknow bench passed the order on a plea filed by Chandralekha Singh.
As many as 235 cases, including 92 fresh ones, were listed for hearing before Justice Vidyarthi on Tuesday, and he was only able to hear 29 fresh matters until 4:15 pm.
However, when he was informed about the current matter remanded by the Supreme Court, Justice Vidyarthi started hearing the case at 4:15 pm and continued until 7:00 pm.
The petition was filed in 2025 against an order of the District Court. The high court had in May 2025 overturned the District Court order and directed it to decide the matter afresh after affording an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner.
This order of the high court was challenged in the Supreme Court, which on August 25, 2025, overturned it on the ground that the concerned respondent had not been heard.
The apex court had also asked the high court to decide the petition afresh expeditiously, preferably within six months.
The six-month period was set to expire on Tuesday.
After a marathon hearing of the matter, in which senior advocate Anuj Kudesia for the petitioner, senior advocate Sudeep Kumar for the concerned respondents, and PK Srivastava for Canara Bank had argued at length, the judge expressed that he was completely exhausted and was not in a position to pronounce the judgment at that time, and hence he reserved the verdict.
While reserving the judgment, Justice Vidyarthi observed, "Today there were 92 fresh matters, 101 regular matters, 39 fresh miscellaneous applications, and three matters listed in the additional/unlisted lists I, II, and III. Only the fresh cases up to serial number 29 could be heard today."
"However, keeping in view the order passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the hearing of this matter was commenced at 4:15 p.m. and it concluded at 7:10 p.m.," he said.
"Since I am feeling hungry, tired, and physically unable to pronounce the judgment, the judgment is reserved."