Number crunching

Listening to lawyers reeling out figures in decimals during lunchtime can tax judges

Listening to lawyers reeling out figures in decimals during lunchtime can tax the concentration of judges. A Hero Motors counsel was unleashing pages of them in the Supreme Court on Monday to defend the company’s stand on BS IV vehicles, asserting that it was not guilty of polluting air in cities. The argument extended to lunch break. When the counsel mentioned 0.02 toxicity, Justice Madan Lokur seemed to have a slight disconnect from the subject. He suddenly asked: “Is it not more than the budgetary allocation for judiciary?”