A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud took up the petition filed by the lawyer.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Courtroom on Friday advised a lawyer, who was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment after being held responsible of legal contempt for making “scandalous, unwarranted and baseless imputations” towards a number of sitting judges of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom and district courts within the nationwide capital, to tender unconditional apology to the judges he had focused.
The Delhi Excessive Courtroom had on January 9 held the lawyer responsible of contempt of courtroom and sentenced him to 6 months in jail, moreover imposing a positive of Rs 2,000. It had additionally directed that he be taken into custody and handed over to the Superintendent of Tihar Jail.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud took up the petition filed by the lawyer after it was talked about earlier than it.
The bench, additionally comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, noticed the excessive courtroom famous in its verdict that it had given him a possibility to apologise for the “contemptuous allegations” he made in a plea however he replied within the “unfavourable and said that he stands by no matter allegations he has made”.
The counsel representing the lawyer mentioned the petitioner was prepared and prepared to tender an unconditional apology.
“Earlier than we are able to take into account the request of the petitioner, we direct that the petitioner, if he’s so inclined, should file unconditional apology on affidavit earlier than the judges of the excessive courtroom and of the district judiciary towards whom he had made the allegations,” the bench mentioned.
“The police authorities shall prepare for the petitioner to be produced in particular person earlier than every of the judges earlier than whom an apology must be filed…,” it mentioned.
The bench posted the matter for listening to at three PM on January 16.
In its verdict, the excessive courtroom had famous that because the lawyer who made the contumacious allegations was an officer of the courtroom, it was essential to verify such actions with a “agency hand”. He had filed a plea earlier than a single decide of the excessive courtroom in July 2022 by which he accused a number of judges of performing arbitrarily, whimsically or in a biased method. He had additionally named the judges in his petition.
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