The Delhi Excessive Court docket has sentenced an advocate to 4 months of straightforward imprisonment for prison contempt for making “scandalous and derogatory allegations” in opposition to judicial officers, judges and law enforcement officials. The court docket additionally slapped a fantastic of Rs 2,000 on him.
Holding advocate Sanjeev Kumar, who was showing as party-in-person, responsible of contempt, the bench of Justices Prathiba Singh and Amit Sharma recorded Wednesday that Kumar “has no respect for the courts as additionally all the judicial system itself”.
“The contemnor (Kumar) has additionally not proven any regret through the course of the submissions being heard by this court docket. He has not expressed any apology and his total conduct is merely an try and scandalize and malign the courts. Such conduct on behalf of the contemnor, particularly, somebody who’s certified as an advocate can’t be left unpunished… The deplorable and derogatory language utilized by the contemnor are clearly contemptuous in opposition to the judicial officers, judges, and court docket,” the bench famous.
Kumar is concerned in a number of litigations together with his spouse and her household over matrimonial disputes.
Taking objection to the variety of complaints in addition to Kumar’s feedback on chats made throughout digital proceedings, the court docket went on to file that it “leaves no method of doubt that in an effort to settle scores together with his spouse and her household, as additionally to unnecessarily interact them in multifarious, frivolous and baseless proceedings,” Kumar took to scandalising the courts and saved them “occupied”.
“In the middle of such complaints, the judicial officers who’ve handled even small purposes haven’t been spared and have been made the goal of varied complaints which have been filed… The ld. Single Choose (of Delhi HC, Justice Anoop Mendiratta) who had thought of all the matter on deserves on January 25, 2024 was additionally not spared. The truth that hybrid hearings, which are supposed to help litigants and advocates, are in truth being misused to place such derogatory remarks within the chat field, leaves no method of doubt within the thoughts of the court docket that the contemnor is liable to be punished for prison contempt,” the court docket recorded.
“Contemplating the aforesaid, submitting of 30 to 40 complaints in opposition to judicial officers, law enforcement officials as additionally the judges of this court docket by the contemnor clearly exhibits that his intention is to scandalise the court docket as additionally decrease the dignity and authority of the court docket… The written submissions, in truth, additional perpetuates contemptuous conduct of the Contemnor,” the bench dominated because it directed that his custody be taken from the court docket itself and be despatched to jail.
The bench additionally refused Kumar’s request to remain the order in order that he can enchantment in opposition to the identical earlier than the SC. “Contemplating the vilification marketing campaign of the contemnor in opposition to the courts generally and several other judges particularly, and the brazen nature during which he addressed submissions even on this contempt petition, the court docket will not be inclined to droop the order,” the court docket reasoned.
