Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud today pulled up a lawyer for using the informal ‘yeah’ to address the bench and said he is “allergic” to the expression. He also reminded the lawyer that he was in the courtroom, not a cafe.

The lawyer mentioned a 2018 petition in which he had added former Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi as a respondent. “But is it an Article 32 plea? how can you file a PIL with a judge as a respondent,” Chief Justice DY Chandrachud asked. Article 32 of the Constitution guarantees citizens the right to seek constitutional remedies when their fundamental rights are violated.

In response, the lawyer said, “Yeah, yeah the then CJI Ranjan Gogoi… I was asked to file a curative…” The Chief Justice cut him short. “This is not a coffee shop! what is this yeah yeah. I am very allergic to this yeah yeah. This cannot be allowed.”

“Justice Gogoi was a former judge of this court. You cannot file a plea like this against a judge and seek an in-house inquiry because you did not succeed before the bench,” the Chief Justice said.

The lawyer responded, “But Justice Gogoi dismissed my plea relying on the statement that I had challenged for being illegal. I had no fault, I had requested CJI Thakur to move my review plea before a bench conversant with the labour laws. But that did not happen and it was dismissed.” The Chief Justice then told the lawyer in Marathi that he cannot impugn a judge when he challenges a high court judgment.

The Chief Justice said the registry would look at the petition and asked the petitioner to delete the name of Justice Gogoi — now a Rajya Sabha MP — from his petition.

A biker died after being chased and attacked by a rhino near the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam’s Morigaon district on Sunday. The victim, Saddam Hussain, was a resident of the Kamrup Metropolitan district, about 30 kilometers from the place of the incident.

The 37-year-old was traveling on his two-wheeler when the rhino, which had strolled out of the wildlife sanctuary, approached him.

In a video that has gone viral, he can be seen quickly getting down from his bike and running into an open field as the animal, which can run up to 55 kilometers an hour, chases him.

Locals can be heard shouting to scare off the rhino, which can weigh up to 2,800 kilograms.

Hussain was later found with his head smashed in the field.

“The rhino came out of the wildlife sanctuary. We are investigating the incident,” a forest official told the news agency ANI.

Located in the suburbs of Assam’s capital Guwahati, the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary is known for holding the highest density of one-horned rhinos in the country.

Data released this month on World Rhino Day said that India’s one-horned Asian rhino population has almost tripled in the past four decades.

The number of animals has surged from 1,500 four decades ago to more than 4,000 now.

An adult Indian rhino, the largest of the three Asian species, can live for about 50 years.

Kaziranga National Park in Assam is home to an estimated 80 percent of the world’s one-horned rhinos.

The US has once again issued a record number of student visas in India this year, exceeding last year’s figure of over 1.4 lakh. All first-time student applicants secured appointments at one of five consular sections in India. Indian students now represent the largest group of international graduate students in the US, constituting more than a quarter of foreign students.