Emotional CJI holds court for last time

The Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, held court for the last time yesterday, stopping a lawyer who broke into song to wish him a long life to say he was “responding from the heart” but will speak from his mind in the evening.

Misra, who presided over benches that delivered a series of key verdicts like the one on Aadhaar and homosexuality over the last 10 days, appeared to be emotional during the brief court proceedings that lasted about 25 minutes.