Lawyers should attend court in proper attire: SC tells lawyer who came to HC in jeans
New Delhi: The Supreme Court in its recent order disposed of a petition by an advocate challenging a Gauhati High Court judgment expelling him from Court for wearing denim trousers for work, reminding the petitioner that every advocate was required to appear before Court in proper attire as mandated by the Rules.
Aggrieved by the Gauhati High Court judgment, followed by a direction to police personnel to remove the advocate from court premises, the petitioner approached the apex court. He also argued that the High Court had no authority to get the police to ‘de-court’ him.
The apex court bench of Justices Bela Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma, which heard the petition, stated that, as the lawyer had not only apologized to the court but also was neither discourteous nor unruly, the Gauhati High Court could have closed the matter and asked the advocate to leave rather than getting the police to remove him from court premises. The bench, therefore, asked for the High Court order directing the police to de-court the advocate to be expunged.
The bench closed the matter with a reminder to the advocate that it was ‘needless to say that every advocate is expected to come to the Court in proper attire as per the Rules and behave in the Court’.
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3 held, hunt on for 4 accomplices after they kidnap, assault and urinate on man in Bhopal
Bhopal (PTI): Police have registered a case against seven persons and arrested three of them for allegedly kidnapping, assaulting and urinating on a 22-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, officials said on Thursday.
The incident occurred during the intervening night of April 26 and 27 in an area located under the Hanumanganj police station limits, an official said.
One of the accused urinated on the face of the victim and captured a video of the act, which was later circulated on social media to humiliate him, he said.
"A complaint in this connection was lodged by Jaswant Markam (22), a resident of Kamla Nagar, based on which a case was registered against seven persons under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and police have arrested three of them, including one Prem Thapa," Bhopal Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said.
Three police teams have been formed and the remaining suspects will be apprehended soon, he said.
During the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, Markam was at the local bus stand with a friend when around 4 am, the accused took him away on the pretext of discussing something with him. They asked him about his neighbour and friend Aniket. When he refused to provide any information, they started assaulting him, the police said.
The accused then took him to a forest in Karond area, where he was stripped and severely thrashed, they said.
When the man began to lose consciousness, one of the accused urinated on his face and made a video of the act, which was circulated on social media to humiliate him and spread terror, according to the police.
The accused called Markam's friend around 5 am to inform him about his condition. The victim was subsequently admitted to a hospital, the officials said, adding that the viral video was also being investigated.
Responding to a query, Hanumanganj police station in-charge Awdhesh Bhadoria said if the victim was found to be from the tribal community, then relevant sections will be invoked against the accused.
At present, the police are probing the incident and search is on to arrest the remaining accused, he added.
In 2023, a man had urinated on a tribal youth in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media platforms and created a controversy.
