The Lawyer Who Made Flying Visits To Courts

There was a lawyer who would fly his L5 two seater plane all the way from Patna to Delhi with a refueling halt at Lucknow. The second seat was occupied by his Munshi. His aircraft was parked at the Safdarjung airport and went to argue at Supreme Court He was Akbar Imam. The clients who came to receive him there would sometimes not be able to arrange a motor car to take him to court, and he happily rode pillion on their bicycles. This unusual lawyer was Akbar Imam, whose birth centenary falls today, the 11th of August.