ANIRUDDH KUMAR SAXENA Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) It has been famously remarked that there are "lies, damned lies and statistics". Be that as it may, there are statistics aplenty in this keenly disputed matter and, it is such statistics alone which comprise the core of both the written and oral submissions of the appearing parties.

(2.) This is definitely not a first and, will also not be the last for any Court to venture into the statistical probability and/or plausibility of one argument or, a set of arguments over another. The statistical probability and/or plausibility, in other words, the odds favouring one mathematical result over another was famously pressed into service by the late Panna Lal Basu, M.A.B.L., the then Additional District and Sessions Judge, Dacca while decreeing in favour of the Second Kumar of Bhowal in Title Suit No.38 of 1935.

(3.) In his judgement delivered on 24th August, 1936, the Learned Judge writes:-