CHANDIGARH: To the long list of reasons why adjournments are sought has been added a particularly unusual one: "The mood of the court is bad this morning."This uncommon adjournment happened on February 4 in the Punjab and Haryana high court, where a lawyer arguing a civil revision petition apparently felt he didn't stand much of a chance after seeing Justice Rajiv Narain Raina dismiss the first four cases of the day, "one after the other".Justice Raina accepted counsel KS Sidhu's plea for an adjournment, albeit after clarifying that the four cases he had dismissed back-to-back deserved to be treated so. "The counsel, assuming the mood of the court is bad this morning [due to] dismissing of first four urgent cases one after the other... prays that time may be granted to him to argue the case some other day. I grant permission for an adjournment, but not without saying that those cases were not worth admission," he said.In 2018, Raina had granted an adjournment in a civil suit after he was informed that the counsel representing one of the parties was newly married and would prefer to argue the case some other day.The same year, Raina asked the Haryana government not to create hurdles in inter-faith marriages. He observed that seeking certain information during registration of marriages under the Special Marriage Act was tantamount to violation of privacy.