No light in eyes but law at fingertips

Asansol, July 9: Chittaranjan Dey walks into court with measured steps, a pile of pap-ers tucked under his arm. He takes the chair in front of the judge’s bench, like any lawyer. But Dey is different. He stands up, sensing that the judge is stepping into the room and taking his place, but cannot see him. Dey, 64, has been visually challenged since he fell from a tree at the age of 10. Today, as a government pleader, he has at least 60 convictions under his belt. Every morning at 10, Dey comes to the Asansol additional district and sessions court, holding his teenager son’s hand. Once on the premises, he finds his way to the courtroom. “Initially, no one would come to me,” he said. The first case came through a senior. It was on behalf of a man charged with unlawful possession of railway property. “To my surprise, I obtained... [read full story]