Supreme Court judge stuck in lift during blackout

Chennai: It was the turn of the country’s top judges on Sunday to bear the brunt of Tamil Nadu’s power woes. Four judges, including one from the Supreme Court, got trapped inside an elevator in the Madras High Court premises during a blackout. Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court accompanied by his wife Subala Pasayat, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice A K Ganguly, Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice A R Dave and another judge from that court, Justice T Meena Kumari, were coming down after attending a function when the lift got stuck. Their lift stopped on the first floor of the new library building in the court complex and they were forced to spend more than 10 minutes inside. Alarmed court and police authorities scampered for help. A police officer brought a fan and switched it on to ensure that fresh air could enter the lift through a slit created with the help of an iron object. Officials said it was Justice Pasayat’s wife who suffered the most. ‘She was sweating profusely, we were worried,’’ said an official. Eventually, a team managed to manually lift the elevator to the second floor with the help of ropes and force open the elevator door. All the dignitaries stepped out of the lift visibly upset and harrowed.

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