PTI | | Posted by Yamini C S
The Excessive Courtroom of Karnataka has sentenced an advocate to jail for one week for “making wild allegations in opposition to the judicial system and the Judicial Officers particularly”. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale and Justice Ashok S Kinagi lately ordered that advocate Okay S Anil be taken into custody and once more offered earlier than it on February 10.
Anil, who’s going through a prison contempt of courtroom proceedings within the HC had filed a memo-cum-written submission wherein he had urged that his case be transferred to a different bench as he had filed a grievance in opposition to the sitting judges.
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Quoting the advocate’s submission, the HC in its order mentioned, “The assertion made by the accused in paragraph 6 making allegations in opposition to the Judges of this Courtroom clearly reveals that the accused is having no regards to the judicial system. The accused being a training advocate and constant habits of the accused on the sooner events and as we speak making wild allegations in opposition to the judicial system and the Judicial Officers particularly signifies that he’s making an attempt to demean the establishment and is decreasing the picture of the judicial system in public eye.”
The Courtroom mentioned it’s left with no different choice besides to cross an order for taking the accused into judicial custody for committing contempt of Courtroom. The unique prison contempt case in opposition to Anil was filed in 2019. He had been issued a bailable warrant which he had obtained on October 14, 2019. He accepted one other discover in Might 2020. One other suo-moto contempt petition was initiated in opposition to him.
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The courtroom famous that when police authorities made an try and serve him the bailable warrant, he refused to reply. The police filed an in depth report back to the courtroom about this. The HC solely quoted a paragraph wherein Anil claimed he was ailing and desires each the Chief Justice and different judges to recuse themselves from his case and all his instances earlier than one other frequent bench.
Anil had alleged that “All this angle of KAR HC judges itself proves the extreme abuse of Contempt act/regulation that in lack of transparency, to maintain judicial corruption alive and live-streaming is just not finished absolutely.” The HC in its order mentioned, “We want not check with different statements made within the memo at this stage as they’re within the type of allegations in opposition to the Judges of this Courtroom.”