Exit this way

It's a good idea to get out while the going is good.

After a weeklong hullabaloo at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana seems to have partially relented to the demands of agitating justices and lawyers. As per reports, he has proposed a “graceful exit” from the apex court after the legal community asked ethical questions about his continuation as the chief justice, claiming that he had brought disgrace to the institution. It is not clear whether his proposal is a last card in a desperate attempt to hold on to the chair, or a genuine attempt to salvage his image while on his way out. As we await what is in his yet undisclosed proposal of a graceful exit, the chief justice has left the public wondering if there is such a thing called a graceful exit after leaving the sacred institution of the judiciary, which is considered the last refuge of democratic ideals, in a pool of controversy.