A detenu’s plea for hearing his appeal Underneath the multi-layered solutions proffered to countless ills afflicting judicial system, suggestion for setting up a National Court of appeal with regional benches in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkatta did some rounds before the idea was temporarily buried with the Attorney General telling the then Chief Justice T.S.Thakur’s court on April 26, 2016 that “We will only be adding to lawyers’ pockets. The Supreme Court should not consider this when its own dockets are full.” Recently, in Sadaulla @Sadab @Nanka, a detenu serving a life sentence, after a conviction of Sessions Court in the State of Jharkand had moved the High Court and Supreme Court successively to obtain bail without success, pending his appeal and later approached the High Court again pointing to the fact that he had served 10 ½ years in person and requesting to set a date for hearing in his appeal. The High Court ordered that it has no time to hear his appeal and dism...