JUDGMENT

KRISHNA IYER, J. :—A simple petition to review an earlier judgment of this bench has, because of the intervening summer vacation, passed through vicissitudes, gathered episodes and been blown up into an exciting chronicle of unsavoury events, injecting more passion than reason, more heat than light, into the forensic proceedings. We kept completely clear of the unhappy imputations and confined counsel to the merits of the review proceeding before us. Justice discards party, friendship, and kindred and is therefore, represented as blind. This objectivity generated clarity and brevity, thanks, of course, to co-operation by counsel on both sides.

2. The facts are few although the fight is furious and the parties are army officers. It is a pity that careerism makes camaraderie a casualty in a profession where self-sacrifice for a higher cause is the dedication. Without moralising, we will state the grievance of the petitioner and examine whether our earlier order deserves reconsideration or reversal. Judges have a vested interest not in their judgment but in the justice of the cause and where the former is in error must unhesitatingly suffer surgery so that no curtail wrong is