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CHAPTER 9
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I was also lucky in my seniors, Lala Faqir Chand Aggarwal and Bakhshi Tek Chand. Bakhshiji had been responsible for my shifting to Law from chemistry and very often entrusted handsome briefs to me as his junior. Lala Jagan Nath, myoid friend and class fellow, who had been practising at Lahore for some years, introduced me to the Chief Court Bar. I became a member of the Punjab Association Club, the leading Indian Club in Lahore in those days. Being a good tennis player. I became fairly well known and popular in the club. I had the privilege of occupying a seat in the Bar Association rooms in the company of such eminent men as Mr. Manohar Lal, Mian Fazal Hussain. Mr. Dalip Singh, Lala Jagan Nath Aggarwal, Mian Abdul Rashid, Mr. Muhammad Zaffarullah and Malik Feroze Khan Noon. All of them became leading figures of the land of the Five Rivers.
Sir Henry Rattigan was then the Chief Justice of the Punjab Chief Court and justices Shadi Lal, Chevis, Lesli-Jones, Broadway, and Le-Rossignal were the prominent judges.
The political organisation connected with the Indian National Congress was called the Indian Association in Lahore. Lala Duni Chand, a barrister, was its leading spirit. I joined the association, having been previously secretary of the District Congress Committee, Gurdaspur.
During the first few months of my practice at Lahore, I had some very interesting experiences as a lawyer. It had been my strict rule not to accept a brief which in my opinion had no merit and hence no chance of success. My father had engraved this sound principle firmly on my mind. A case of Rawals (ministrels) was sent to me from Gurdaspur. A large number of the people of that tribe were interested in that litigation. The question involved in the case was simply one of pure fact and no second appeal was competent to the Chief Court. Like many other litigants, they were however desirous of filing the appeal no matter what happened to it.
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