that phone call...

I happen to get a call from some random number today after noon and the lady who had called me said " Am I speaking to Mr. Ganesh HS?" I said  "Yes" after which she went to on to say "there is a case filed on your name at Delhi High court, you have to be at the court the day after tomorrow to attend the proceedings" after hearing this, all of a sudden, I recollected a call that I had got a few months back from a person saying that she would be filing a case against me, however if I care to do the settlement outside the court then I should contact some lawyer whose number she had given, which I didn't even bother to note down properly. I had totally ignored that call thinking that it was some prank by someone who knows me. When I talked to that lady today over the call I realized that it wasn't a prank. I became nervous, but still I managed to ask her "What case, and what for?" for which she replied" You can contact our lawyer Mishra who would be able to tell"  This time I carefully noted the number when she told and I reconfirmed all the digits that too twice.

I was clueless after the call. I wondered who could have possibly filed a case against me and for what. As I'm a businessman, this reminded me about one of the risks of running a business, which is not knowing when and for what reason people can file a case. I was trying to reach that lawyer Mishra but I wasn't able to get connected. This led to more random thoughts hovering over my head. May be since this getting married thing was in some corner of my mind, I thought about my near future like this, first of all not many fathers would let their daughters to marry a young businessman or an entrepreneur, and now on top of that background having a legal case, that too at Delhi High Court - now God can only get me married to a sane girl. I also tried to reconcile my mind simultaneously with some constructive thoughts. I thought, may be fighting this court case was some freaking adventure that wasn't too early in my life, I also remembered the time when I had failed in a subject during my final year of engineering, subsequently losing a job offer and also getting awful grades during my masters degree, which had screwed my career options badly - while all these unfavorable events, in retrospect, made my life better than what I had thought of. Though I couldn't imagine being guilty for anything, I tried hard to believe that this court case was some sort of a test that I had to go through, which can perhaps make me a stronger person. To be honest these thoughts weren't working all that great on me.                 

I could finally reach this lawyer Mishra's number after multiple try. A lady who was lawyer Mishra's assistant took the call. I told here my name and asked her about the case. She told that the case was filed by a mobile internet connection company against me for not paying the final month internet charges after disconnecting my connection, which was perhaps pending for more than a year. She also told me that they had tried to contact me a few months back but they weren't successful. She went on to tell me that I was left with two options, one was to attend the court proceedings the day after tomorrow at Delhi High Court with my lawyer or do the settlement outside the court by depositing the unpaid bill amount which was rupees two thousand one hundred and forty four, at the nearest company outlet with in next half an hour.