The National Fisherfolk Forum has condemned the observation by Supreme Court Judge J Chandrachud who had compared a chaotic scene in the courtroom to a 'fish market'.
The fisher community has taken offense to the analogy made by Justice Chandrachud who was hearing a PIL over the death of Justice Loya, on February 5. J. Chandrachud had asked not to 'reduce the dialogue in this court to a level of fish market' after a heated exchange between senior lawyers Dushyant Dave and Pallav Shishodia took place.
The two lawyers had exchanged harsh words and took open digs at one another.
The National Fisherfolk Forum, a national confederation of state-level fisher federations, have issued a press statement condemning the remarks and demanded J. Chandrachud to take back the comment 'in the very same forum it was uttered'.
Fisher community takes offence to a comment by Justice DY Chandrachud in #JudgeLoya case hearing.
— Utkarsh Anand (@utkarsh_aanand) February 8, 2018
The judge referred to "fish market" to criticise the high-decibel arguments but a group now wants him to withdraw the comment since it reportedly paints the community in bad colour. pic.twitter.com/c03cwKlGVw
"The utterance of the Honourable justice is tantamount to disrespecting the total fishers communities..The hearts of the fisher community are pained as he has mentioned their activity in a case which has nothing in common, " read the Press statement.
"We would also like to know why the activities of a fish market should be mentioned in such bad colour," it further said.
The 'Fish Market' Expression
The expression 'like a fish market' is a predominantly an Indian coinage, most commonly used by teachers reprimanding students: 'This classroom is like a fish market'.
In a similar usage, a Supreme Court bench, recently, chided the government for filing an 845-page affidavit containing incomplete information about solid waste management across the country and said the apex court is not a "garbage collector".
"Don't do this. Whatever junk you have, you dump it before us. We are not garbage collectors. Be absolutely clear about this," the bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta had said.