A judge should not be a speaking judge. Whatever he wants to say he should say it through his written judgment . He had better avoid unwarranted wranglings with the lawyers during the course of proceedings in under trial cases in the court room as inadvertently or through slip of the tongue such words may come out of his mouth from which it should not be difficult for many listeners to discern which side is he on.
Likewise, that judge is considered to be a good judge who has no social life and he abstains himself from attending private or official lunches and dinners.
A code of ethics exists which spells out clearly dos and don’ts for the judges to follow in their life. Unfortunately, it is honoured more in the breach than observance by many judges.
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During the reign of Ranjit Singh the law and order of Peshawar had touched its nadir and he had to employ a retired Army General belonging to Italy named as Paolo Avitabile to restore it .
In those days foreign mercenaries used to be employed by rulers of the then Indian states., He had proved his mettle as governor wazirabad in 1829. So Ranjit Singh appointed him to the gubernatorial office of Peshawar in 1837. In a very short time he crushed all the criminals by handing them down harsh punishment like hanging them from the lamp post or throwing them down from the minaret of Mohabat Khan mosque. Peshawar city. The Peshawarites had nicknamed him as Abu Tabela.
