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On the Bench once more continues...
I must record that it was a wrench to part with the very good and friendly colleagues with whom I had worked for a number of years at the Lahore High Court. The Chief Justice Abdul Rashid of that Court was a kind and affectionate friend.
We had both been at the High Court Bar for a long time and had established very good relations with each other. Mr Justice Sir Abdul Rehman was an angelic personality. We used to call him ‘Molvi,’ a very learned, God-fearing person, completely above communalism, who always took an objective view of things in every matter that came before him. I sat with him on a number of cases and we had almost become blood brothers. He was Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University. He was out of the country when the partition took place. If left to himself, he would probably have opted for the East Punjab High Court. But when he returned to Delhi after the partition, he had to leave for Pakistan. My friendly relations with him have not been interrupted by the partition.
Once he came to Delhi and stayed with me for a fortnight. Mr Justice Mohammad Munir, now the Chief Justice of Pakistan, had not only been my junior at the Bar, we were appointed to the Court permanently almost about the same time. We were good friends. During vacations, he sometimes came down to Dharamsala, and stayed with me for a few days. He was fond of shikar. Every winter he gave his brother Judges a dinner in which nothing but shikar was served.
Then there was Mr. Justice Jan who had newly joined the Court and who also was well-disposed towards me; also an I. C. S. Judge.
Mr. Justice Abdul Rehman. He was a brilliant product of the I. C. S. who after partition became the Custodian General of Pakistan. I have nothing but sweet memories of my work as a Judge of the Lahore High Court as well as a Judge of the East Punjab High Court.
On the bench once more concluded!