New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Delhi High Court has raised serious concerns over "judicial indiscipline and impropriety" after finding that subordinate courts granted protection from arrest to an accused in a property fraud case despite repeated rejection of his anticipatory bail applications, including by the Supreme Court.

Justice Girish Kathpalia, while dismissing the fifth anticipatory bail plea in the matter, noted that both a Magistrate and an Additional Sessions Judge had entertained applications and stayed arrest even after the High Court and the apex court had declined relief.

The court said such conduct undermined judicial discipline within the hierarchy.

"The irresistible conclusion is that it appears to be a case of judicial in...