The Supreme Court had to set aside a verdict by the Himachal Pradesh High Court because, well, the learned judges could not understand it. According to The Tribune, the SC Bench comprising justices MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta tried pretty hard and gave it their “best of efforts”. You wouldn’t blame them if you sampled some of the paragraphs that made up the High Court’s judgment. The case is pertaining a land dispute in which a landlord filed an eviction suit against his tenant on grounds of non-payment of rent. According to the report, the High Court set aside the eviction order granted by a subordinate court “holding that the rent amount was received by the landlord”. Simple story but the High Court’s judgment in question makes matters pretty complicated. The Tribune offers a sample:

“(The)…tenant in the demised premises stands aggrieved by the pronouncement made by the learned Executing Court upon his objections constituted therebefore…wherewithin the apposite unfoldments qua his resistance to the execution of the decree stood discountenanced by the learned Executing Court.”

Here’s another one:

“However, the learned counsel…cannot derive the fullest succour from the aforesaid acquiesence… given its sinew suffering partial dissipation from an imminent display occurring in the impunged pronouncement hereat wherewithin unravelments are held qua the rendition recorded by the learned Rent Controller…”

Needless to say, even the lawyers from both the parties did not understand the order.