Subhah Kapoor-directed Jolly LLB starring Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani and Saurabh Shukla was a thorough entertainer. The 2013 movie fared well at the box office, making approximately three times its budget, and satisfied the critics and audience alike.

It's quite possible that CBI Special Court Judge Om Prakash Saini watched the movie. After all, Jolly LLB was a courtroom drama with Saurabh Shukla playing a judge who is well aware of the state of courts in the country, and how 'justice' works.

Sana Shakil's profile of OP Saini published on IndiaToday.in in 2013 notes Saini as a "soft-spoken but tough judge" and that Saini "is known to act tough if the decorum of the court is not maintained," much like Shukla's character in Jolly LLB.

It's possible that Shukla's character was inspired from Saini's.

Om Prakash Saini was handpicked, considering his reputation and impeccable record, to exclusively try the 2G spectrum cases after a Supreme Court bench asked the government to set up a special court.

Yesterday, OP Saini's verdict on the 2G scam was pronounced, sending the main accused A Raja, then telecom minister and DMK leader, M Kanimozhi, and the Congress Party into a state of contentment, for he acquitted all the accused in the case.

In the judgement, OP Saini came down heavily on the prosecution saying, "prosecution has miserably failed to probe any charge against any of the accused made in its well choreographed charge sheet" and said, "some people created a scam by artfully arranging a few facts. A huge scam was seen by everyone where there was none."

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR EVIDENCE

In the judgement, OP Saini described seven years of his life since the 2G scam case reached his court. He wrote, "for the last seven years on all working days, summer vacation included, I religiously sat in the open court from 10 am to 5 pm, waiting for someone with legally admissible evidence in his possession but all in vain. Everybody was going by rumour and gossip."

Now this part is strikingly similar to a dialogue in the movie Jolly LLB and is delivered by Saurabh Shukla who plays the judge.

Twitter user @goyalsanjeev tweeted the scene -

So Judge #OPSaini's remarks "Worked daily for ~7 yrs from 10-5 and waited for evidence" ... Seems to be dialogues copied straight form JollyLLB movie. Jai hoï¿½??ï¿½#2GVerdictFixed @rvaidya2000 @Swamy39 pic.twitter.com/mMN0CpljrH - #Intolerant à¤­à¤¾à¤°à¤¤ï¿½?à¤¯ (@goyalsanjeev) December 21, 2017

Shukla's character says, "I can't give a judgement based on what I know or what I feel. I have to make the judgement based on evidence. On the first day of the case, I understand who the culprit is. But I sit here, waiting for evidence. Files pile up on my desk but not one paper comes to my table that I can consider strong evidence. Evidence is not produced, culprit walks free. That's what has been happening."

Quite similar, eh?

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