Supreme is the Supreme; Director CBI Ranjit Sin-ha is not an exception.

5^th October, 2014, we stealthily looked at each other in the dinning hall at Holiday Home State Guest House, Udaipur. 6^th also passed like that. Neither of us took initiative for self introduction. 7^th I could not resist and wished him Jai Ram Ji ki for mutual introduction.

“I am B K Dass from Srinagar, Kashmir. I am a teacher by profession” said I.

He said: “I am Rajesh (Name changed) Sharma, Dy. Registrar Supreme Court of India.”

Soon we entered into a gossip.

He said: “I have been to Kashmir and stayed at Mattan for six months.

“Surprised! How is it? There is no sub court of the Supreme Court of India at Mattan” said I.

The Judge said: “I was there to conduct an enquiry in the relief distribution to the earthquake sufferers that shook Muzaffarabad and its adjoining areas”.

Map of J&K State not to scale shows Mattan-Pahalgam is to the south-east of Srinagar and Muzaffarabad is to the far end of north-west of Srinagar

I said: “The earthquake occurred on 8^th Oct.2005 and caused damage and causalities over an area of 30,000 sq. km in the NWFP of Pakistan and parts of Pakistan occupied Kashmir. The major cities and towns affected were Muzaffarabad, Bagh and Rawlakot in Kashmir and Balakot, Shinkiari, Batagram, Mansehra Abbotabad, Murree and Islamabad in Pakistan with 80,000 causalities, 200,000 injured and more than four million homeless.(Google information) It does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India”.

The judge said: “I was there to conduct enquiry into the distribution of relief to earthquake sufferers on this side of the LOC.”

“Agreed, but its effect on this side of the LOC was insignificant and not that alarming, besides,

Mattan-Pahalgam is to the south-east of Srinagar and Muzaffarabad is to the far end of north-west of Srinagar

Muzaffarabad and the LOC the affected areas are to the north-west of Srinagar and the site of your camp was to the south-east of Srinagar. Both are poles apart. All who come from Delhi to probe prefer to be nearer to Pahalgam rather than at the site of occurrence. It is nothing short of enjoying holidays on public exchequer” said I.

The judge gave a smile and next day we did not have common dining hall and dining time.

Bashir from Pringal was allotted a prefabricated hut though he

argued with the Revenue authorities that his area was not affected

Bashir is from Pringal. Pringal and Buniyar are on either bank of the River Jehlum at a distance of about 15 km from Uri. I was on picnic to Pringal on 9^th August, 2014. Bashir offered me rent free accommodation if I liked to stay for sometime there. He said that they reluctantly accepted under pressure prefabricated hut as the earthquake had not caused any damage to their area.

Sin-ha indicates many sins. Like Subhana the Worst was for the best tailor, Sin-ha is for the scapegoat or the pigeon parrot.

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