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While on leave outside India during the summer vacation, he was delayed on the high seas. He is said to have advised the Punjab Government that it was not necessary to appoint an officiating Chief Justice in his absence, as he had reached the territorial waters of India when the Court opened. He could, therefore, be deemed to have assumed his office! When I appeared for my first case on the opening day after the summer vacation, I submitted to the Court that it could not proceed with the case as there was no High Court in existence at the time! The High Court is defined in law as consisting of a Chief Justice and puisne judges of the Court. But there was no chief of the Court that day. Hasty consultation with the Government of India seemed to have been held and Bakhshi Tek Chand was gazetted as the officiating Chief Justice before the day was over!
Sir Dauglas Young eventually left the Court in the year 1943, unwept and unmourned; no address was given to him by the Bar and no party was arranged in his honour.
In 1934 I was invited by the directors of the Punjab National Bank to join its board of Directors. The late professor Devi Dyal, Rai Bahadur Maharaj Krishan Kapur, chairman of the bank, Dr. Nihal Chand Sikri and R. B. Mukand Lal Puri came to my house and pressed me to agree to become a director of the bank which was a national institution and had been started by leading members of the D.A.V. College Society. Owing to certain business upsets it had lost its premier position. In order to regain public confidence, it was necessary, I was told, to have some persons of known integrity and reputation in the province on the board. It was proposed to take Rai Bahadur Badri Dass, Lala Jagan Nath Aggarwal and myself on the board. I accepted their invitation thinking that the presence of the new directors secured the interest of the creditors and shareholders alike.
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