The note appended to the case of the killer schoolmaster shows just how common intimate partner violence is: “Uxoricide is the term used to describe the killing of one’s own wife or girlfriend. Mukherjee manages to save the man who murdered his brother in a fit of rage by casting doubts on the eyesight of the sole witness, the father of the duo!Īmrita Mukherjee’s afterword to each story details the legal clauses under which the cases were tried and what they mean to the lay reader.This adds another dimension to the book. One of them features a fratricidal killing. Each of the pieces deals with cases that the advocate took up believing in the innocence of the accused. His sudden death hurts the defence lawyer who laments about the mysteries of existence that lead even good men to their doom.Īdvocate Asoke Mukherjee (Courtesy Amrita Mukherjee)Īnd so the stories go on. A girl from a “good” family falls in love with an underworld don whom Mukherjee agrees to defend because he takes a liking to the handsome and good-natured man, who is kind despite his way of life. The third case in the book, The Dreaded Don, seems straight out of a Hindi film. Apparently, they had been transported in a van and set “free” only to be shot down. Even as Asoke Mukherjee was defending him in a court case, he and his Naxal peers were shot down by the police. The second case deals with Paritosh, a young man, who got involved in the Naxalite movement in West Bengal.
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